Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[re-adding bugreport to list of recipients] On 12-01-31 at 10:17pm, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Andreas, hi Jonas, hi all, thanks for the reply!!! On Fr 27 Jan 2012 11:44:02 CET Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] [...] I also

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-29 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, Mike Gabriel wrote: To address #311188 the latest approach that has been discussed is enrolling the maintainers of all affected packages (and that can be many) to add blend-customized debconf values to their packages so that a clean preseeding of the package is

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-01-26 at 12:24pm, Mike Gabriel wrote: I am talking about each single Debian package. Not the whole system. And every package in this model can be in non-blended mode or in blend mode for _one_ blend. Thanks for the

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi all, after having worked with the Debian Edu team for a couple of months now I would like to make a proposal on how to address configuration file manipulation within Debian blends. For further reading on configuration file manipulation and Debian policy violation refer to bug #311188

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Mike, On 12-01-26 at 11:13am, Mike Gabriel wrote: To address #311188 the latest approach that has been discussed is enrolling the maintainers of all affected packages (and that can be many) to add blend-customized debconf values to their packages so that a clean preseeding of the

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Jonas, hi all, On Do 26 Jan 2012 11:58:55 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote: So, my opinion is that without implementing the blending mechanism within Debian policy itself (and that is also: within dpkg itself), we may possibly stall here for longer. It is the other way around: Debian Policy

Bug#311188: Draft proposal for handling configuration file manipulations in Debian blends

2012-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi, NB! Please do not cc me - I am subscribed to both d-blends@ and the bugreport. More info at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct On 12-01-26 at 12:24pm, Mike Gabriel wrote: I am talking about each single Debian package. Not the whole system. And every package in this model