On 03/19/2013 05:18 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: > I think you're wrong. The fact that question aren't asked all in a row > is not the OpenStack packaging team's problem here
Who's problem then? > and trying to avoid > this problem by re-implementing something that you will endless run > after is a waste of time. I thought like you first. Then I realized that we have no choice but to implement something anyway, because the upstream library doesn't have a feature to actually write the configuration, it only can read it. > Further more, I'd argue that real deployers really don't care about the > questions and will use preseed or some non-interactive thinggy to not > have to answer them anyway. So this sounds like an un-needed > optimization that it's going to cost you a lot in the long run (chasing > bugs and limitation from your implementation and adding more feature). Well, if we're writing some debconf stuff, it is so it can be used. I don't believe it is reasonable to say "bha... people are going to preseed anyway, so why should we care". I do care! Also, I believe that my final solution, based on regular expression, is easy to change if there was any trouble with the parsing. The fact that I use a unique logic to both read and write values also helps maintainability. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
