On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:52:54PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:32:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > kernel-package is a helper utility to create kernel packages, not a > > > package that you need installed on most systems, unless you need a > > > custom kernel or are a kernel package maintainer. > > > that said, i do agree that this probably shouldn't be in the > > > postinst of the package :) > > s/shouldn't be/must not be/. You can't claim a well-known config > > file as yours just because there's no other package on the system > > that has done so; this is still a policy violation, both because it's > > not your config file to be editing, and because your postinst script > > doesn't respect a user's config on upgrades if the user has *removed* > > these update-lessdisk-kernels lines. > I believe we all agree that lessdisks-terminal violates Debian Policy > (section 10.7.4): I'll make sure to fix that! > The reason for my pointing to this bugreport on the debian-kernel > mailinglist is that the discussion here seems to raise other issues > (and Stephen is hesitant to file RC bugreports against the kernels). > Noone has so far argued against linux-2.6 having RC bugs, so I might > just take the heat of filing those bugreports myself (forking this one). Looking at the k-p-generated postinst scripts, I see a single edge case in which the script will offer to write out /etc/kernel-img.conf if it doesn't exist. Is this what you're referring to? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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