Re: Renaming a conffile in maintainer scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 08 October 2010 15:38:22 Raphael Hertzog wrote: While this avoids the conffile prompt in all cases, it also means that if the new conffiguration file has changes compared to the old one, the user doesn't get to see them... instead they are stored in .dpkg-new without any prompt.

Re: Bug#593909: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to be printable ASCII characters, except colons. I propose the following change in the context the patch that I

Re: Bug#593909: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to be printable ASCII characters, except colons. I propose the following change in the context the patch that I