Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2011-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Hm. All the words that I had intended to be there are there. I clearly need to rephrase it somehow, though, if it's not clear. How about: When two packages both declare the same

Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Hm. All the words that I had intended to be there are there. I clearly need to rephrase it somehow, though, if it's not clear. How about: When two packages both declare the same ttconffile/tt, they may see left-over

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-10-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (20/08/2010): Objections or seconds? Seconded. Both this version and the other, reworded version. Mraw, KiBi. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 9037de8..5fdf775 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -7950,22 +7950,6 @@ ln -fs

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Objections or seconds? Looks mostly good except: @@ -8014,6 +7998,34 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq and which manages the shared configuration files. (The ttsgml-base/tt package is a good example.) /p

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: + p +A package that declares the same ttconffile/tt as another, +conflicting package may see left-over configuration files from +that other package. EPARSE on this sentence, it

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: +p + A package that declares the same ttconffile/tt as another, + conflicting package may see left-over configuration files from + that other

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: What happens if you have a package on the system that's removed but not purged and you install another package (conflicting with the first) that contains the same conffile? I suspect the conffile will be

Bug#163183: Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Yann Dirson ydir...@mygale.org writes: Richard Braakman writes: Yesterday I noticed that Debian policy is incorrect on this: Only packages that are tagged *conflicting* with each other may specify the same file as `conffile'. A

Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Yann Dirson ydir...@mygale.org writes: Richard Braakman writes: Yesterday I noticed that Debian policy is incorrect on this: Only packages that are tagged *conflicting* with each other may specify the same file as `conffile'. A package may not modify a configuration file of