Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-11-23 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:59:25AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: I'm of the opinion that there needs to be a way for packages to register generated files as belonging to them with dpkg. Packages would be expected to register ucf/etc-generated configuration files, alternatives and any files and

Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-11-22 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:11:21PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: cruft Version: 0.9.11 Severity: wishlist Currently cruft reports configuration files managed by ucf as cruft. It would be nice if cruft knew about the ucf database and checked it for missing files and used it to explain

Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 09:22 +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Can you point me at an example reported file and package which owns it, so that I can actually learn how ucf works? I have a very vague idea of how it does what it does... gpm and /etc/gpm.conf -- bye, pabs

Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-11-22 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:40:48PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 09:22 +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Can you point me at an example reported file and package which owns it, so that I can actually learn how ucf works? I have a very vague idea of how it does what it does...

Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
I'm of the opinion that there needs to be a way for packages to register generated files as belonging to them with dpkg. Packages would be expected to register ucf/etc-generated configuration files, alternatives and any files and directories created by their maintainer scripts. cruft could then

Bug#499792: cruft: needs enhancements that use ucf

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: cruft Version: 0.9.11 Severity: wishlist Currently cruft reports configuration files managed by ucf as cruft. It would be nice if cruft knew about the ucf database and checked it for missing files and used it to explain files that are otherwise unexplained by other explain scripts.