Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
With libnet-perl, I intend to make the the config file a symlink to /etc/libnet-perl/Config.pm, eventually. For the moment I just want to get the update package out the door. Mike.
