Package: bird Severity: wishlist Bird configuration is highly structured, and can become quite complex very easily, e.g. in a large route server setup for a IXP.
The more complex configs benefit highly from being split into different files, tied together using "include". Even in a single-file-config scenario, we already have two config files when ipv6 is in use (one for bird, one for bird6). I feel that we'd be better served by shipping a /etc/bird directory, to house bird and bird6 config files. Using a preinst maintainer script, it is possible to safely move /etc/bird.conf and /etc/bird6.conf to the new config directory without bothering users, requiring manual intervention ONLY in the case where /etc/bird/bird.conf and /etc/bird.conf (or /etc/bird/bird6.conf and /etc/bird6.conf) are already present in the system. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (990, 'proposed-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.24+ (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
