On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:32:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:26:41AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Jonas Smedegaard said: > > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:44:59 +0100 Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > > Note that it talks about configuration files, not just dpkg > > > > > conffiles. > > > > > Yes. I am well aware of that. > > > > Ah, from the way you were talking about 'owning', I assumed you > > > meant something like dpkg -S /etc/kernel-img.conf didn't show > > > anything, so you were thinking it was unowned. If that's not the > > > case, I apologize. > > > > > > Your package directly modifies another package's > > > > > configuration file, instead of using an interface to do so. > > > > > Please clarify: Which _single_ package do you believe to own > > > > those configuration files in question? > > > > It's fairly clearly kernel-package. kernel-package ships a sample > > > config file, a man page, and is also responsible for the postinst > > > hooks in the kernel images that mess with kernel-img.conf. > > > i have to disagree with this point. i do not have kernel-package > > installed on my system, but i have kernels installed which use > > /etc/kernel-img.conf, which was created by debian-installer. > > > kernel-package is a helper utility to create kernel packages, not a > > package that you need installed on most systems, unless you need a > > custom kernel or are a kernel package maintainer. > > > that said, i do agree that this probably shouldn't be in the > > postinst of the package :) > > s/shouldn't be/must not be/. You can't claim a well-known config > file as yours just because there's no other package on the system > that has done so; this is still a policy violation, both because it's > not your config file to be editing, and because your postinst script > doesn't respect a user's config on upgrades if the user has *removed* > these update-lessdisk-kernels lines.
I believe we all agree that lessdisks-terminal violates Debian Policy (section 10.7.4): I'll make sure to fix that! The reason for my pointing to this bugreport on the debian-kernel mailinglist is that the discussion here seems to raise other issues (and Stephen is hesitant to file RC bugreports against the kernels). Noone has so far argued against linux-2.6 having RC bugs, so I might just take the heat of filing those bugreports myself (forking this one). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n_r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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