tag 771496 - confirmed severity 771496 minor thanks On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 15:22:08 +0100 gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:28:39 +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > The user's configuration in this case comes from debconf prompt and > > that choice is preserved upon upgrades, without additional prompts > > and is safe w.r.t. to dpkg prompts. > > Yes but it does it wrong. There are no user-supported values in that file, it only stores debconf information. Any change on dpkg-cross behaviour caused by that file is a separate bug. > The .config should read existing values from the file and feed them > into debconf. NO. Absolutely no. There are no supported values in that file other than what is already in debconf. debconf must not be polluted by arbitrary values. > > /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile.sample on the other-hand is a conffile > > and direct modifications to that file will be preserved and used to > > generate /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile file. That file should probably exist in /usr/share/ instead. That's a different bug. > > Thus you can edit the .sample file to add other things in that file > > and they will be preserved across upgrades. > > This is non-intuitive (why would I edit .sample to change the other > one?) and more importantly it doesn't work because the postinst just > replaces "#*default_arch". Exactly. It is not supported. dpkg-cross is essentially unmaintained and I'd rather it was orphaned - it has been dead for some time and the only real purpose for having the package after Jessie will be the /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-config.* files, not cross-compile. Any package relying on /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile for anything except the default arch already set in debconf is buggy. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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