On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:10:01PM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > >Package: laptop-mode-tools > >Severity: serious > >Justification: causes user configuration loss > > > >After purging the package, I discovered my syslog ceased to work. I > >found a dangling symlink > > > >/etc/syslog.conf -> /etc/syslog-on-battery.conf > > > >This causes sysklog stop working at restart and user unable to restore > >again his old > >configuration file in anyway. At least keep the user original > >configuration in a safe place is mandatory. > > Agreed. This is definitely a problem. > > >It would be better avoiding > >completely to upset user configuration in that way IMHO. > > I agree that it would be nice -- but it's impossible. :/ Anyway, this > configuration modification is only done on the administrator's request > (lm-syslog-setup), so he must have agreed to the modification. The > problem here is that the original config is not restored on uninstall, > as would be expected. > > Thanks for reporting, I'll have it fixed in the next release! >
If the same problem exists in sarge as I suspect, managing a proposed-update and patching to save poor users of stable would be nice, too. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
