Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 703022 pending thanks Le Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:38:56AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I will commit this as a non-normative solution in the absence of comments in the next few days. Comitted, thanks to everobody for your contribution. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:59:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: It should work way better than before, in part thanks the to the usage and bug reporting from MIT, but as you say there's still some wrinkles, which I plan on fixing for 1.17.x;

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In the meantime, I propose to modify Appendix G by adding the following sentence. Do not attempt to divert a conffile, as progdpkg/prog does not handle it well. I know that we should not add contents to the appendices, but in that case it

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 09:22:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In the meantime, I propose to modify Appendix G by adding the following sentence. Do not attempt to divert a conffile, as progdpkg/prog does not handle it well. I

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: It should work way better than before, in part thanks the to the usage and bug reporting from MIT, but as you say there's still some wrinkles, which I plan on fixing for 1.17.x; in any case I'm always interested in any bug reports affecting these.

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Jerzembeck
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: minor The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is due to the fact that conffiles are not removed during a remove, but but only during a purge. As a

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Torsten Jerzembeck t...@nightingale.ms.sub.org writes: The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is due to the fact that conffiles are not removed during a remove, but but only during a purge. As a

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 14.03.2013 17:34, Russ Allbery wrote: The last time I looked at this (which was several years ago), diverting conffiles had enough problems that it was tempting to just say that it didn't work reliably. I wonder if we should explicitly recommend against diverting conffiles, or if some of

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:34:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Torsten Jerzembeck t...@nightingale.ms.sub.org writes: The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is due to the fact that conffiles are not

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Jerzembeck
Russ Allbery wrote: The last time I looked at this (which was several years ago), diverting conffiles had enough problems that it was tempting to just say that it didn't work reliably. I wonder if we should explicitly recommend against diverting conffiles, or if some of those problems have been