Package: etckeeper Version: 0.40 Severity: wishlist (I'm probably begging for a wontfix tag, but here it goes.)
One feature I'd love to see in etckeeper is the ability for dpkg to store a copy of the pristine conffiles in a separate branch, in a manner similar to the familiar upstream/master Git setup. This would make it easy to list the local changes applied to a file without brining up the whole log. But more importantly, it would finally make it possible to do a 3-way merge on modified conffiles, instead of dpkg's naive pick-one-or-the-other approach, while still retaining backups of both versions. Now, unless I'm mistaken, this would require some serious collaboration from dpkg, since you can't just switch branches on /etc while services are running. I guess etckeeper would have to set up a temporary checkout, have dpkg extract the conffiles there, and perform a commit/push/merge afterwards (before calling postinst). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.8 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii git-core 1:1.6.3.3-2 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii mercurial 1.3.1-1 scalable distributed version contr Versions of packages etckeeper recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-106 process scheduling daemon etckeeper suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
