severity 404861 important tags 404861 moreinfo thanks Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If really you can't preserve the comments, it must be said at the >> beginning of the configuration file. > > That would also be a good idea. > > In summary, I think that wwwoffle's handling of wwwoffle.conf is > suboptimal, but I don't see how this is release-critical. The wording > of Policy and etch_rc_policy.txt is unclear about this, I think, but I > would downgrade this bug to important. (09:37:56) fant: "Changes to configuration files must be preserved during a package upgrade." (09:38:22) fant: Does that include comments? Or is it acceptable to remove/change those, if the original file is available as a backup? (09:38:46) fant: Of course it's a bug to remove comments, but is it RC? (09:45:37) vorlon: fant: I'm straddling the fence on that one, personally. In this particular case, I think it is okay to downgrade the severity, since the problem seems to occur only in very special cases. I have tried to create a patch, but found that the code looks okay, and should preserve comments even at the end of the file. Can you please send the backuped old version, and the postinst-changed new version of the file? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
