On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:09:25PM +0200, Tomasz Mrugalski wrote: > Thanks for investigating this issue. Although I'm maintainer of this > package, my defconf and ucf understanding is rather limited (I'm upstream > author, so I eneded up as maintainer of bunch of other packages: for > Gentoo, OpenWRT etc). > > Whould it be possible to get rid of the ucf completely? > dibbler-client.postinst could generate new version (and rename old one) > without any ucf invocation. As I understand it, the only flaw would be > that this backed up file would not be marked as config. file for > dibbler-client.
No, you definitely want to use ucf, because if you will ever change the default config file created by the package, and the existing config file will have local modification, ucf will prompt user to choose what (s)he wants to do: install the new version or keep the existing version. I've asked Joey Hess (debconf author) about it, and he said that if you have db_stop before invoking ucf, then ucf will not be able to start debconf after that, and that will cause a hang we see. Please go ahead and prepare a new release using my patch, and I can sponsor it, if needed. Cheers. -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
