On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Mi den 28. Nov 2007 um 11:51 schrieb Pierre Habouzit: > > > (May there are a debconf question?)
> > No I won't use debconf here, because it's definitely the most viable > > way to use xinetd nowadays. Though the next upload will document that > > fact completely in the README.Debian > [...] > > I don't want to use debconf. It's an overkill. > Pardon? debconf overkill? This is right the correct place for it as it > change the basic way the package work completely. There are three principal cases in which debconf is useful: - you have a setting to configure for which there is no reasonable default - you have a setting to configure that it's useful to allow preseeding for on initial install - you have an error message to display *conditionally* on upgrade. I don't think any of these apply to xinetd. Debconf should not be used as a substitute for either NEWS.Debian or for doing the hard work of figuring out the correct reasonable default. Doing so wastes translators' time and users' disk space. > There we have completely other understanding of. xinetd is a replacement > (with its own configuration). Using the inetd.conf you have no benefit > of using the plain old one. The compat mode is only good for migration. Well, no, the other benefit is that you actually get integration with update-inetd, which is how packages declare themselves to the inet-superserver. But I'm not overly happy with this implementation, xinetd ought to be providing its own update-inetd script instead. But even in that case, there would be an upgrade issue on account of the fact that pre-existing entries in /etc/inetd.conf corresponding to packages that have previously called update-inetd would not be handled automatically upon installation of xinetd; or that they would at best suddenly become active when those packages are upgraded, rather than when xinetd is upgraded. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]