On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 04:08:22PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:10:40AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > Beyond adding an NEWS entry, another easy thing you could do is > > replacing the current command in ExecStart= by a wrapper script that > > uses ser2net.conf if it exists (while printing a big fat warning), and > > ser2net.yaml otherwise. > > This is how ser2net currently works. It will load ser2net.yaml if it > exists. If it does not, it will load ser2net.conf.
But the package brings a ser2net.yaml with it, so ser2net.conf wouldn't be read in any case. > Writing a converter wouldn't be too hard, I should have done that. > There is some trickiness dealing with colons in device names, but I > think that's the only hard thing. If you don't do this, I can do it. Considering ser2net is a not widely used package, targeted at advanced users, I think that displaying information about the configuration file change (which I forgot in the last upload) would probably be the easiest way to go ahead and get ahead of the pending freeze. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
