On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 05:22, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 02/10/2006 Volker Christian Behr wrote: > > > unfortunately, a version information in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf is > > > updated every new upstream release. i consider this as a bug as it > > > causes dpkg to ask for a configfile update even if no content changed. > > > > > > if you have local changes in the configuration, this is very annoying. > > > > > > maybe you can convince upstream to remove the release version from the > > > configuration file. > > > > Is there a way to make dpkg ignore this comment in the configuration > > file? > > unfortunately not. the only solution i can think of now, is that the > debian package strips the version line from the config at build time. > > > For some other installations/distributions I depend on the version > > number being part of the config file.... > > could you explain in which situations a version number in the config is > required?
Anytime people do not use the pre-packaged versions (i.e. Debian packages, rpms and so on) but compile and install from the sources. They tend to forget to update the configuration along with binary. So I have to check each config-file they send to me by comparing with my sources whether it matches the version they are using and they cannot check it by themselves easily. This is - as I had to learn the hard way - a lot of extra work when debugging installation issues. -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
