Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-21 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 20 March 2008 18:58:00 Artur R. Czechowski, vous avez écrit : > So what should be the proper way to allow switching between ATI and Debian > debs with drivers? The packages are never to be compatible or upgradable. To be more clear, we should even renamed them at some point. The prope

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't sound good for me. Let's consider fglrx driver. I would like > to stay tuned with fglrx from Debian package. But sometimes I have a > problems running an OpenGL application. In such cases I use an flgrx > directly from ATI to verify if

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cut] > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to > > remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to g

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] >> Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to >> remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to get some confirmation > before adding something to Policy 10.7.3 about this. See Bu

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, why it still exists? I read Debian Policy, section 10.7.3[1] but it > does not say what shall happen if after upgrade of the package it does > not provide conffile anymore. > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesy

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to > remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? That's correct. The only way currently to remove obsolete conffiles is to do it manually in the maintainer scripts [1] I

I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Hello developers, Trying to run insserv and dependency based boot sequence on my workstation I run into a phenomenon I cannot understand. Let's see an example: xserver-xorg package. I have latest version from unstable: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server Let's see the content of