Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200]: > Hi, > > for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a > conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there > is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real > problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as there was nobody > modifying this conffile at all, the package has just been installed and > upgraded... > (…) > cherokee_0.99.20-1
As the maintainer for this package, I won't wait for the bug report to arrive ;-) Cherokee is a quick moving target, although it has settled down, and I do hope not to see too much upstream movement until we decide to freeze. We currently sit at 0.99.22-1, and Lenny ships with 0.7.2-4. Etch shipped with 0.5.5.dfsg-2 (because of some RFCs in the upstream tarball). Why am I mentioning those release numbers? Cherokee completely changed its configuration file logic after 0.5 — From a human-oriented configuration, it went to a format that's human-modifiable but its prefered modification form is via the cherokee-admin interface. Thus, a migrator script was included. I feared havoc to wreck Etch to Lenny updates, but it was mostly painless. Cherokee's development rythm also changed substantially due to factors that are completely off-topic here - What happened following 0.6 is a quick sucession of iterations, introducing minor (but fundamental) changes in the configuration file. If this file is meant to be machine-managed, I have considered moving it over from /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf to /var/lib/cherokee/cherokee.conf — But that is a move most likely to cause misunderstandings. Still, if you look at my preinst¹ (and yes, I just spotted a silly bug in my comparison syntax, which is due to be fixed soon :-P How come I do «dpkg --compare-versions "$version" lt 0.8» twice and expect different results‽), you will see there are 7 minor migrator scripts that will affect Lenny → Squeeze migrations… So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up with a confused daemon unable and unwilling to move on. How should I proceed with this? Greetings, ¹ http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cherokee.git;a=blob;f=debian/cherokee.preinst;h=0c39283a3d883ff68958410b8b41d0ca8b8f547c;hb=HEAD -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
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