Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-06 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 04.03.14 08:58:58, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2014 17:56:38 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > > The part "undo damage" I do not understand. From what I understand > > dpkg compares the new config with the existing one. So to upgrade from > > stable properly I would have to replace

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 17:56:38 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > The part "undo damage" I do not understand. From what I understand > dpkg compares the new config with the existing one. So to upgrade from > stable properly I would have to replace my new config with the > identical to the existing one

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 3 March 2014 16:41, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2014 16:23:28 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >> I agree this is a nice solution with a patch, I will integrate it for sure. >> However what should be done in such situation with bug 740332 ? >> Should I close it with the new release

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 16:23:28 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > I agree this is a nice solution with a patch, I will integrate it for sure. > However what should be done in such situation with bug 740332 ? > Should I close it with the new release? ok, I did not realize that the upgrade test is don

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 3 March 2014 13:51, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2014 08:59:01 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >> It is upstream's choice. But I will include such a patch, it is quite >> trivial. But this is not the case here. >> The problem is that installing the package asks for users' decision

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 03 March 2014 08:59:01 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > It is upstream's choice. But I will include such a patch, it is quite > trivial. But this is not the case here. > The problem is that installing the package asks for users' decision > (keep config, replace with maintainer, etc). > Appl

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-03 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 2 March 2014 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dariusz Dwornikowski writes: > >> The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst >> (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled >> /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of >> violation of pol

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Dariusz Dwornikowski writes: > The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst > (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled > /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of > violation of policy 10.7.3 [2]. I closed the bug in a new release b

Weird conffile case

2014-03-02 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
hi, I would like to request some advice on a case I need to resolve with maradns package [1]. The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of violation