On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> >$ strace zile /tmp/foo 2> /tmp/strace.log
> >$ grep ENOENT /tmp/strace.log
> >[...]
> >rename("/tmp/foo", "/home/rmh/.backup/!tmp!foo~") = -1 ENOENT (No such
> >file or directory)
> >[...]
> 
> I think you've been caught out by the change in booleans: "true" is now 
> "t" and "false" "nil".
> 
> If you set backup-directory to nil, you should get the desired 
> behaviour.

Yes, that was it.  Note I was using the default zilerc that came with 2.2.13-1.

It's likely that many other users have some variant of the old ~/.zile and run
into problems.  Given the situation, I think some warning should be added.  Some
suggestions:

  - Detect the old syntax and abort.

  - Add a debconf warning (with high priority) to the package, explaining the
    situation.

Thanks,

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