Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> - dpkg refuses to convert normal directory to a symlink on upgrade, so I >> can't provide an upgrade path. > > There is a standard solution for this. > > Add to preinst something similar to > > if [ -d /usr/share/FBReader/default/ ]; then > mkdir -p /etc/FBreader > mv /usr/share/FBReader/default/* /etc/FBreader > rmdir /usr/share/FBReader/default/ > ln -s /etc/FBreader /usr/share/FBReader/default/ > fi
Hm, thanks. >> - fbreader is not a system service/program/daemon, it's a end-user >> program, and different users may want to use different layouts; >> >> I would suggest introducing reading some settings from user home >> directory. I have just forwarded this suggestion to upstream BTS. > > Although you are probably correct, having system-wide default will not > hurt. And it has an advantage that it could be done at packaging level > now, without any code altering. > Btw, systems in question, where default settings are not good (phones, etc) > are commonly single user. This makes sense. Ok, I will wait for 0.10.4 anyway, and upstream comments. Also, I'm a bit scary to introduce such a diversion from upstream directory structure, because in case we will decide to change/revert something (or upstream will decide) converting things can easily became more complex. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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