Le jeudi 30 avril 2015 18:00:39, vous avez écrit : > but should the user not choose not > to use cme to manage the configuration via the install prompt in apt/dpkg, > the only copy of the needed configuration in order to get lcdproc to do > anything useful is buried down in /usr/share/doc/lcdproc/LCDd.conf.gz, and > no indication of this fact is given to the end user at install time. To the > naive user who has never installed lcdproc before, they would not know to > look for this file there instead of the Debian standard location of /etc/, > as was previously managed by dpkg.
That's a valid point. I'll modify the message shown to user to specify where to find the original configuration file. > As a solution to both of these issues, it seems that it would make a lot of > sense to separately package "cme" and set "libconfig-model-lcdproc-perl" > only as a Recommends or ideally, imo, a Suggests instead of Depends for > lcdproc. I also need to update lcdproc dependency list as the layout of cme and libconfig-model-perl has changed. Regarding the dependendies, I have to consider 2 scenario: - if cme is recommended or suggested, people may get upgrade problem with lcdproc because they forgot to install cme (or removed it by mistake). - if cme is required, some people don't like having more packages installed. I think the first scenario is a usability concern and harder to recover from. The second problem is more subjective. Hence cme will stay a required dependency. > Obvously, you would then set "cme" as a Depends on > "libconfig-model-lcdproc-perl", so that you could actually make use of the > suggested package. You would also need to restore /etc/LCDd.conf as a dpkg > conffile, so that it retains all of the benefits of being managed by dpkg. Can't have both. This is decided at packaging time: any file installed in /etc/ is a conffile and cannot be modified by a script. That's why LCDd.conf landed in /usr/share/doc . All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
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