On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:13:24PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I didn't know you were alone maintaining a hundred of packages that need > >> this particular removal code. Interesting. > > > > You seem to be deliberately misunderstanding me. I'll stop wasting my > > time. > > I meant that when a maintainer copies code in its maintainer scripts, he > *must* read the code carefully and understand it. Therefore, if a > hundred maintainers do that as you suggest, there is a very high > probability that most, if not all, bugs are found during the process.
I doubt this. Additionally, this is a huge waste of maintainer time. Code like this _BELONGS_ into a standardized tool. Following your course of argumentation, why not have debhelper removed from the archive? > And finally, please accept my apologies for having wasted your precious > time correcting your question (where the use of "conffile" was wrong, Mea culpa for writing a wrong subject. Please have my posting privileges to -mentors removed for two years as punishment for this terrible mistake. Millions of innocent bits had to be flipped because I wrote a wrong subject over a correctly worded question. If you find some more efficient punishment, such as force-orphaning all my packages or having me expelled from the project, please go ahead. > and that of ucf not even mentioned), That was a deliberate omission since the challenge is independent of ucf. Actually, the challenge is there _BECAUSE_ ucf was not designed to address this issue (which it actually should) and its maintainer considers this missing feature a feature. > your algorithm (which was missing 'ucf --purge') My algorithm assumed a ucf-less setup as the issue at hand is independent of ucf. ucf doesn't help here. > and extracting the relevant portion of code from tetex-bin that does > what you want. Thanks for doing so. Seeing that code has reconfirmed my opinion that this task is so common and so complicated that there needs to be a standarized tool to handle this issue, and I still feel that the right place to do this is the tool that claims to be able to replace dpkg conffile (sic!) handling, ucf. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
