Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-29 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 28 May 2005 22:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 28-05-2005 21:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: I'm currently working on a conversion script (not part of maintainer-scripts), that'll migrate path approach to desktop-profiles You don't like my cfengine script? I wrote it

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-05-2005 15:44, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Saturday 28 May 2005 22:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 28-05-2005 21:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: I'm currently working on a conversion script (not part of maintainer-scripts),

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 21-05-2005 00:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: my hack does nothing in itself, the gconf path file is not being changed behind the admin's back, or on the packages initiative. _The_admin_is_the_acting_party_ Please elaborate

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-28 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
I'm currently working on a conversion script (not part of maintainer-scripts), that'll migrate path approach to desktop-profiles I'm currently unsure about wether to provide a hook through which the admin can start that script from within the package installation or not. This bug seams to

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-05-2005 21:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: I'm currently working on a conversion script (not part of maintainer-scripts), that'll migrate path approach to desktop-profiles You don't like my cfengine script? I wrote it specifically for

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-05-2005 00:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: my hack does nothing in itself, the gconf path file is not being changed behind the admin's back, or on the packages initiative. _The_admin_is_the_acting_party_ Please elaborate on

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:28, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 20-05-2005 10:46, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Friday 20 May 2005 09:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: was planning on contacting the gconf2 maintainer already (I'll probably get around to that this weekend), I don't expect that

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: desktop-profiles Version: 1.4.5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.4 The file /etc/gconf2/path is a conffile owned by the package gconf2. Postinst of desktop-profiles offers through debconf to mess with that file. That is a violation of Debian Policy section 10.7.4. I see no

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-20 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 20 May 2005 09:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Package: desktop-profiles Version: 1.4.5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.4 The file /etc/gconf2/path is a conffile owned by the package gconf2. That file is left alone by default on installation of desktop-profiles. The

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-05-2005 10:46, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Friday 20 May 2005 09:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Package: desktop-profiles Version: 1.4.5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.4 The file /etc/gconf2/path is a conffile owned by

Bug#309871: desktop-profiles: Messes with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-20 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:28, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 20-05-2005 10:46, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Friday 20 May 2005 09:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: c) Provide your hack only as a tweak that's the current situation I think, no? No. Your hack replaces the file, ignoring any and