reassign 620172 usb-modeswitch-data 20110227-1 # Explanation below, don't feel offended right now. :-) tags 620172 +wontfix thanks
Hi Tanguy, and thanks for your bugreport, Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 20:09:36, Tanguy Ortolo a écrit : > For each file it removes, it displays an informative text: > Removing obsolete conffile /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1a8d:1000:uPr=5G ... > Removing obsolete conffile /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/0421:060c ... > and so on. > > I think this is too much, it would be better to display something like: > Removing obsolete conffiles from /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/ > do the work, then display something like “[done]”, and that is it. First, let's reassign this bugreport to usb-modeswitch-data where it belongs, as it is this "data" package that handles the files under /etc/usb_modeswitch.d. Then, while I agree with your bugreport (upgrading to ">= 20101222-3" is _very_ verbose), I don't think I will fix it, and here's why : as you can see from the source package, I am using dh_installdeb's *.maintscript file (that creates dpkg-maintscript-helper lines in all the maintainer scripts) to handle the removal of all those (now obsolete) configuration files. This permits me to store this information in _one_ file and delegates all the conffiles dance to debhelper and dpkg-maintscript-helper. So, written differently: the verbosity level of dpkg-maintscript-helper is not under my control. I could rewrite it's functionality in all the usb- modeswitch-data's maintainer scripts or try to hack around it in the *.maintscript file (which I don't think will succeed), but all-in-all, it's a overly verbose _upgrade_; so it will happen _once_ in the Squeeze-Wheezy upgrade. I don't see that as a big drawback. But of course, if one wants to provide a patch that keeps the simplicity of the *.maintscript file while reducing the verbosity, I'm all ears. Cheers, OdyX -- OdyX
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