On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:34:53PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> My concern about his patch are:
>
> 1. The patch introduces a conffile. As it's usually not modified by
> users (but see point 2), and im-switch is not likely the ultimate
> solution, this conffile is unnecessary and add quite some maintenence
> burden.
>
(...)
>
> So I told him the most important thing is getting rid of conffiles.
> There are two ideas:
>
> I. Put the im-switch configuration files into /usr/share/scim-pinyin/,
> and symlink (delete) it in postinst (prerm) script.
>
> II. Somehow trick the debhelper scripts in debian/rules to not label the
> im-switch configuration files not as conffiles. I have no idea how to
> do this, what the consequece will be, or if this is permitted by the
> Policy.
After consulting on [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am persuaded that messing up
with the conffile system is a bad idea. Although I still think it's a
wrong design for im-switch to put these configuration files in /etc, I
won't fight against it, but just provide these files as conffiles.
So the idea now is providing two conffiles, one for GTK/Qt IM module
from SCIM, one for XIM. I have a written-up patch for scim-hangul due
to my work on Ubuntu, at
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scim-hangul/+bug/33763
And if it turns out to be working well, I plan to implement the same
thing for Debian's packages soon.
Ming
2006.03.05
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