Dear Niko, måndag den 22 november 2010 klockan 12:47 skrev Niko Tyni detta: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:38:08PM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > > I could find good use of some advice on Debconf usage. > > The recent automated package upgrade tests, conducted > > by Lucas Nussbaum, hava revealed that my package Webfs > > fails to upgrade properly from stable (1.21-5.1) to > > testing (1.21+ds1-6). I have filed an RC bug against > > myself on this matter, so I will have to solve it. > > > > My present analysis indicates that after my adoption > > of the package, starting at 1.21+ds1-1, I was too keen > > in letting the postinst script insert some new settings > > in the configuration file. Thus the script awaits feedback > > even in non-interactive mode. > > It's not really about non-interactive mode, that just happened > to pinpoint the problem. > > The issue is that you're modifying a dpkg conffile (/etc/webfsd.conf) in > your maintainer scripts. This is a violation of Debian policy 10.7.3 and > explicitly listed in the 'Release Critical Issues for Squeeze' document at > > http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt > > so #603926 (cc'd) is definitely RC.
This confirms the conclusion I was forced to make in a renewed analysis after sending the message to mentors.d.n. Thank you for the exact pointers. > > You might want to look at using ucf(1) to install the file instead of > shipping it as a conffile. I did implement a solution using ucf(1) for another package and another RC-bug during spring, so I have some distant experience of that. Once more, thank you for the clarification. Regards, Mats E Andersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
