Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-06 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 04.03.14 08:58:58, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Monday 03 March 2014 17:56:38 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: The part undo damage I do not understand. From what I understand dpkg compares the new config with the existing one. So to upgrade from stable properly I would have to replace my new

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 17:56:38 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: The part undo damage I do not understand. From what I understand dpkg compares the new config with the existing one. So to upgrade from stable properly I would have to replace my new config with the identical to the existing one,

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 2 March 2014 21:45, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Dariusz Dwornikowski dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl writes: The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 08:59:01 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: It is upstream's choice. But I will include such a patch, it is quite trivial. But this is not the case here. The problem is that installing the package asks for users' decision (keep config, replace with maintainer, etc). Applying

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 3 March 2014 13:51, Dominique Dumont d...@debian.org wrote: On Monday 03 March 2014 08:59:01 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: It is upstream's choice. But I will include such a patch, it is quite trivial. But this is not the case here. The problem is that installing the package asks for users'

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 16:23:28 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I agree this is a nice solution with a patch, I will integrate it for sure. However what should be done in such situation with bug 740332 ? Should I close it with the new release? ok, I did not realize that the upgrade test is done

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 3 March 2014 16:41, Dominique Dumont d...@debian.org wrote: On Monday 03 March 2014 16:23:28 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I agree this is a nice solution with a patch, I will integrate it for sure. However what should be done in such situation with bug 740332 ? Should I close it with the

Weird conffile case

2014-03-02 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
hi, I would like to request some advice on a case I need to resolve with maradns package [1]. The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of violation

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Dariusz Dwornikowski dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl writes: The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of violation of policy 10.7.3 [2]. I