On Tue, Mar 19 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Who's problem then?
I don't know -- I'm not sure it's a even problem. Maybe dpkg's problem? > I thought like you first. Then I realized that we have no choice but to > implement something anyway, because the upstream library doesn't have a > feature to actually write the configuration, it only can read it. That's a good point indeed. Still, I think it'd be better to contribute to oslo.config and add write support, which could even be useful to others, than hack something in Debian's corner. > Well, if we're writing some debconf stuff, it is so it can be used. I > don't believe it is reasonable to say "bha... people are going to > preseed anyway, so why should we care". I do care! > > Also, I believe that my final solution, based on regular expression, is > easy to change if there was any trouble with the parsing. The fact that > I use a unique logic to both read and write values also helps > maintainability. As I said, I think you're wrong, but the decision is up to you anyway. :-) -- Julien Danjou // Free Software hacker / freelance consultant // http://julien.danjou.info
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