Hello, On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:48:27 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 09:56:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Felix Berlakovich wrote: > > > I applied the patch from Vasily i. Redkin to version 1.17.10 (and moved > > > a redundant part into an own function). BTW his patch works great. I > > > did this in preparation for a possible threeway merge improvement. Is > > > there still any interest in such a feature? Is there any reason why this > > > patch was never integrated? > > > > Paul Wise pointed me at http://community.libelektra.org/wp/?p=145 and > > http://community.libelektra.org/wp/?p=153 which in turn brought > > me back to this email. > > I noticed the initial blogs about elektra some time ago, and was > surprised (not in a positive way) that yet another time a GSoC had > been approved w/o any kind of previous interaction with a project it > supposedly required coordination with. Had pending sending myself a > mail to the gsoc list but had other stuff to do, and pretty much lost > the motivation after those blog posts… :/
Sorry, that it went this way. The blog posts were a call that anybody interested in the topic should contact us. The only one who did contact us was Dominique Dumont. Most of the other work (except Config::Model) starved several years ago. We wanted something where most of it can go upstream during (or shortly after) GSoC. The patches w/o or little reaction till years were not really a invitation. (But we still tried it!) Dpkg is not the only place where it may be done and it seems there is a good reason why several workarounds exist now. However, I think bringing dpkg conffiles to our century would be an elegant solution. But that unfortunately it still remains to be done. > > 4/ yes we are interested in the feature but dpkg is an important piece of > > software and we must get it right from the start, so extra caution is > > always a good idea > > I think I've mentioned before, in any case I'm planning on getting > the conffiledb stuff ready hopefully before the freeze. Which is a > requirement for this bug being fixed. This information would have been very useful earlier. A simple merge is already possible with the patch Felix wrote (based on an earlier patch). That would be already quite an improvement. However, if I understand you correctly, the reason not to accept the patch is that you want the full solution (3-way) or nothing. I understand that. > > which then links to > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Proposals/ConffileDatabase I wanted a proposal (based on ConffileDatabase and Config::Model approach, see https://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade) before the beginning of GSoC (later I wrote one, so that we have something to work with), unfortunately Ian did not finish nor publish it. best regards, Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
