Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:24 -0500, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manua

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine (http://packages.debian.org/crafty). > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > 'lea

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Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:34 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: The implication might be that the best way is not to ship the dynamic book files at all, and just assume they are in the user's home directory or subdirectory thereof and document where to get them. That's all well and good if you've

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Eric> One drawback I see is that crafty-books-medium install a 30MB Eric> opening book file, if we go copying it from /usr/lib to Eric> /var/lib, we're wasting 30MB user's disk space, he might not Eric> like it. Sven> What about a symlink ? How would that help? The whole point is to have 2 dist

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:34 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The implication might be that the best way is not to ship the dynamic > book files at all, and just assume they are in the user's home > directory or subdirectory thereof and document where to get them. That's all well and good if yo

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Eric> One drawback I see is that crafty-books-medium install a 30MB Eric> opening book file, if we go copying it from /usr/lib to Eric> /var/lib, we're wasting 30MB user's disk space, he might not Eric> like it. Sven> What about a symlink ? How would that help? The whole point is to have 2 dis

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Paul Baker
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > > > opening books in

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and > obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you do

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and > obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your > high scores files w

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > > 'learns' from the games

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Paul Baker
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fh

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > > > opening books in

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and > obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you d

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and > obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your > high scores files

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books > that live in /var/li

what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Hi everyone, I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine (http://packages.debian.org/crafty). When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > > 'learns' from the games

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books > that live in /var/l

what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Hi everyone, I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine (http://packages.debian.org/crafty). When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:04:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:24:16AM -0400, christophe barb? wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:04:07PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > > So in the control file, I