On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:52:23 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ansgar writes:
>
> > I would like to recommend packages to use tmpfiles.d(5) to manage
> > creating directories in locations such as /var or /etc instead of
> > maintainer scripts.
>
> > It could also be used to create trivial files
On Mon, 08 May 2023 14:14:30 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 08:48:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> […] I suspect Policy should say something stronger and more
general,
> >> namely that no package in Debian should divert a file from another
> >>
Guillem Jover writes:
> On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 08:48:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> […] I suspect Policy should say something stronger and more general,
>> namely that no package in Debian should divert a file from another
>> package unless this is arranged cooperatively between the packages to
On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 08:48:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> […] I suspect Policy should say something stronger and more general,
> namely that no package in Debian should divert a file from another package
> unless this is arranged cooperatively between the packages to solve some
> specific
Sean Whitton writes:
> On Mon 08 May 2023 at 08:48AM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> In other words, dpkg-divert is primarily for local administrators,
>> non-Policy-compliant local packages that are doing unusual things, and
>> the occasional rare problem that requires special coordination between
On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 20:00, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon 08 May 2023 at 08:48AM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > In other words, dpkg-divert is primarily for local administrators,
> > non-Policy-compliant local packages that are doing unusual things, and the
> > occasional rare
Hello,
On Mon 08 May 2023 at 08:48AM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> In other words, dpkg-divert is primarily for local administrators,
> non-Policy-compliant local packages that are doing unusual things, and the
> occasional rare problem that requires special coordination between
> packages, not
On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 18:31, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Sam Hartman writes:
>
> > In cases where the change being made is permitted by policy, I think you
> > have made a compelling case to vastly prefer the native systemd and udev
> > mechanisms to dpkg-divert. I don't think that your case is
Sam Hartman writes:
> In cases where the change being made is permitted by policy, I think you
> have made a compelling case to vastly prefer the native systemd and udev
> mechanisms to dpkg-divert. I don't think that your case is strong
> enough to forbid dpkg-divert.
> As far as I can tell
On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 16:48, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> I think your X-Debbugs-Cc was syntactically invalid and thus didn't work.
> I manually added in the other addresses in this reply.
Thanks - email is hard!
> Luca Boccassi writes:
>
> > It has come to my attention that there is one package in
On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 16:39, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> > "Luca" == Luca Boccassi writes:
>
> Luca> It has come to my attention that there is one package in
> Luca> Debian using dpkg-divert to mask a systemd configuration file
> Luca> (an udev rule). Speaking as one of the
I think your X-Debbugs-Cc was syntactically invalid and thus didn't work.
I manually added in the other addresses in this reply.
Luca Boccassi writes:
> It has come to my attention that there is one package in Debian using
> dpkg-divert to mask a systemd configuration file (an udev rule).
>
> "Luca" == Luca Boccassi writes:
Luca> It has come to my attention that there is one package in
Luca> Debian using dpkg-divert to mask a systemd configuration file
Luca> (an udev rule). Speaking as one of the maintainers, both
Luca> upstream and downstream, I find this
Package: debian-policy
X-Debbugs-CC: bi...@debian.org pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
It has come to my attention that there is one package in Debian using
dpkg-divert to mask a systemd configuration file (an udev rule).
Speaking as one of the maintainers, both upstream and
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