Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 703022 pending thanks Le Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:38:56AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I will commit this as a non-normative solution in the absence of comments in > the next few days. Comitted, thanks to everobody for your contribution. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 09:22:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > In the meantime, I propose to modify Appendix G by adding the following > > sentence. > > > Do not attempt to divert a conffile, as dpkg does not > > handle > > it well. > > > I know that we

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > In the meantime, I propose to modify Appendix G by adding the following > sentence. > Do not attempt to divert a conffile, as dpkg does not handle > it well. > I know that we should not add contents to the appendices, but in that > case it already contains a sim

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:59:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: > > It should work way better than before, in part thanks the to the usage > > and bug reporting from MIT, but as you say there's still some wrinkles, > > which I plan on fixing for 1.

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: > It should work way better than before, in part thanks the to the usage > and bug reporting from MIT, but as you say there's still some wrinkles, > which I plan on fixing for 1.17.x; in any case I'm always interested in > any bug reports affecting the

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Jerzembeck
Russ Allbery wrote: >The last time I looked at this (which was several years ago), diverting >conffiles had enough problems that it was tempting to just say that it >didn't work reliably. I wonder if we should explicitly recommend against >diverting conffiles, or if some of those problems have bee

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:34:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Torsten Jerzembeck writes: > > The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of > > diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is > > due to the fact that conffiles are not removed during a "rem

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 14.03.2013 17:34, Russ Allbery wrote: The last time I looked at this (which was several years ago), diverting conffiles had enough problems that it was tempting to just say that it didn't work reliably. I wonder if we should explicitly recommend against diverting conffiles, or if some of th

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Torsten Jerzembeck writes: > The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of > diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is > due to the fact that conffiles are not removed during a "remove", but > but only during a "purge". As a "purge" implies a "re

Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Jerzembeck
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: minor The example provided in Appendix G of the DPM regarding the removal of diversions doesn't work if the file diverted is a conffile. This is due to the fact that conffiles are not removed during a "remove", but but only during a "purge". As a "