On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:47:07PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > [This is a diversion from 5.005 problems :-) ] > > I maintain a Perl package, BioPerl, which has one '.pm' which is supposed to > be customized for local characteristics, before installing. I'm wondering how > to handle it and I would like to know if someone already got the problem: > > 1) Customize it for Debian and do not let users customize it. Unfortunately, > the variables to define are really site-dependant. > > 2) Install it, but flag it as a conffile. May be lintian will not like > conffiles in /usr/share/perl? > > 3) Rewrite the module to have it 'use' the real conffile, in /etc/bioperl... > Difficult (especially if the upstream maintainer does not want to integrate > my > patches) but cleaner.
I strongly recommend the third option. If nothing else, you can do this by putting that .pm in /etc/bioperl/site.pm and symlinking from its normal location in /usr/share/perl. Although, as you said, it is cleaner to separate out the configuration elements. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
