Hi Manoj, you never replied to Frank's question below. I would like to know what needs to be fixed/improved in the developers-reference. The issue of handling configuration file is one of policy and until we write a proper "Best packaging practice" paragraph on the topic, I don't think there much to be done in the devel-ref.
Furthermore, I would expect the ucf documentation to contain warnings much like the debconf man page warns you about improper usage of the tool in debconf-devel(7). Cheers, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > severity 408529 wishlist > > Severity set to `wishlist' from `wishlist' > > Am I correct in reading into this some criticism of the way I reported > this bug? Can you be more explicit, please? > > > reassign 408529 developers-reference > > And is there a specific reason why you did not remove the "patch" tag > upon reassigning? > > > Don't we already have a policy directive to not overwrite user > > changes? And does not the dev ref say packages should not ask any > > more questions than needed? > > Of course, but that's not what this bug report is about. > > > Creating a new file using debconf, and using ucf to ask the > > user whether or not to use that, is poor development practice, and > > should be so mentioned in the dev ref about proper handling of > > configuration files. One should not clutter up ucf documentation > > with a treatise on proper practice. > > I still think that ucf's manpage is a proper place to document this, in > order to try to prevent ucf's frequent misuse. > > If you think this should rather be done in the developers reference > (which currently does not mention ucf, let alone advertise its use), > could you go a bit more into detail where you think the right place > would be, and what the important bits of information would be? > > Regards, Frank > -- > Dr. Frank Küster > Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. > Zürich > Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) > > -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
