Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:19:46 -0400 Bill McGonigle wrote: > >> would a sed script to fix this be appropriate in the RPM? Sorry, I >> forget if scripts can know if they're running in upgrade mode.
Yeah, rpm does provide a mechanism for scriptlets to know if they are
installing, upgrading or removing. But...
> If past experience is any indication, it is easier to find and fix
> these things manually than to try and automate them with "helpful"
> scripts that can't possibly be tested on every config file everyone
> has manually modified in weird and wonderful ways :-).
what Tom says here is quite true. :)
> Perhaps a script that printed a big warning saying Hey! Your config
> file mentions the "cumsieve" plugin that is no longer provided!, but
> didn't try to actually fix it itself would be helpful.
That won't happen in proper Fedora packages as printing text via a
package scriptlet it is strongly frowned upon.
It seems to me that if the dovecot update can cause loss of mail
through incompatible changes, it should not be pushed to a stable
release in the first place. If that's the case and you lost mail
because of this, it's surely worth filing a bug so the maintainer
knows about the problem.
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