On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 04:08:22PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:10:40AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > Beyond adding an NEWS entry, another easy thing you could do is > > > replacing the current command in ExecStart= by a wrapper script that > > > uses ser2net.conf if it exists (while printing a big fat warning), and > > > ser2net.yaml otherwise. > > > > This is how ser2net currently works. It will load ser2net.yaml if it > > exists. If it does not, it will load ser2net.conf. > > But the package brings a ser2net.yaml with it, so ser2net.conf wouldn't > be read in any case. > > > Writing a converter wouldn't be too hard, I should have done that. > > There is some trickiness dealing with colons in device names, but I > > think that's the only hard thing. If you don't do this, I can do it. > > Considering ser2net is a not widely used package, targeted at advanced > users, I think that displaying information about the configuration file > change (which I forgot in the last upload) would probably be the easiest > way to go ahead and get ahead of the pending freeze.
Yeah sure. Users will have to deal with this at some point in any case, as I expect that the old format won't stay around forever. Thanks both of you for your time.
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