Hi, First off, thanks for your response!
> 1/ your mail doesn't contain any help offer to bring the patch to a > state where it can be merged so it was not obvious that you were > willing to invest time into improving it Ok, maybe I was a bit unclear in my mail. Yes, we actually are interested in bringing the patch to a useful state. > 2/ your mail was not very well > formatted (a single line) and it's easy > to miss it in the flow of mails Sorry, you are absolutely right. I didn't realise that the bugtracker would not reflow my mail and when I did it was too late ;). > 3/ you need to seek the input of Guillem Jover who is the main dpkg > developer and who already reviewed earlier attempts to bring this > feature Ok, thanks for the hint. > With a few more researches, you could have found our wiki page > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg > which then links to > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Proposals/ConffileDatabase > which contains the most recent attempt to bring this feature to Dpkg. Sean > Finney was working on this but unfortunately he lost motivation due to lack > of review by Guillem. Fortunately Guillem is much more responsive > nowadays so you might have more luck to bring it to a mergeable state. Thanks for the links and the information. The reason why I started with the bug tracker was that I wanted to see whether somebody would respond in time. I wanted to contribute these changes to Ians GSOC project, but it has a deadline. That’s why we changed to ucf very quickly. However, I still would be happy to have this feature in dpkg and I also will tell Ian to point to the links in his blog post. Best regards Felix
