Re: Renaming a conffile in maintainer scripts
On Friday 08 October 2010 15:38:22 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > While this avoids the conffile prompt in all cases, it also means that if > the new conffiguration file has changes compared to the old one, the user > doesn't get to see them... instead they are stored in .dpkg-new without > any prompt. Which brings the question: how can we be sure that the user should not be notified of configuration changes introduced by the package maintainer ? > BTW, .dpkg-new is an extension used by dpkg to unpack new versions of > files during dpkg --unpack. So it will be automatically removed in the > next upgrade of that package... because the hash of the distributed file > has not changed and hence it believes that nothing needs to be done. > > At the very least, I think we should move in .dpkg-dist to be > consistent with what dpkg would have done if the user had seen a prompt > and answered to keep his old file. Do you agree with this? Currently, *.dpkg-dist means that some changes happened that were important enough to trigger a prompt. If they cannot be distinguished from *.dpkg-new, sys admin will not be able to focus on more important changes. May be we'd need to distinguish - after upgrades - new conf files with important changes from new conf files with trivial changes (e.g. comments) > But can we do better and somehow find out the hash on the new conffile > during the preinst (inspecting /var/lib/dpkg/info/tmp.ci/ maybe?) so that > we can put the old conffile in place of the new when we know that it would > have resulted in a prompt anyway? Sorry, you lost me there. Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/ddumont -o- http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010111007.59930.dominique.dum...@hp.com
Bug#599787: ITP: jodreports -- Merge OpenDocument text with data - Library
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Girrulat * Package name: jodreports Version : 2.2.1 Upstream Author : Mirko Nasato Terry Liang * URL : http://jodreports.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL 2 Programming Lang: Java Description : Merge OpenDocument text with data - Library JODReports, Java OpenDocument Reports, is a solution for creating office documents and reports in OpenDocument Text format from templates that can be visually composed using the OpenOffice.org Writer word processor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101011081736.14750.72741.report...@jeronimo.local
Bug#599811: ITP: firetray -- A system tray extension for thunderbird, display the number of unread messages and other features ...
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Girrulat * Package name: firetray Version : 0.2.9 Upstream Author : Hua Luo Francesco Sole * URL : http://code.google.com/p/firetray/ * License : GPL 2 Programming Lang: C++, Java Script Description : A system tray extension for thunderbird, display the number of unread messages and other features ... A system tray extension for linux. It can be added to firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, seamonkey 2 and songbird, allowing to set up custom icon, hiding to tray instead of closing, display the number of unread messages in mailing applications, control playback using multimedia keys in songbird, and other features ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101011133620.31121.84861.report...@jeronimo.local
Bug#599880: ITP: mriconvert -- medical image file conversion utility that converts DICOM files to other formats
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: mriconvert Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Jolinda Smith joli...@uoregon.edu * URL : http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : converts DICOM files to other formats MRIConvert is a medical image file conversion utility that converts DICOM files to NIfTI 1.1, Analyze 7.5 , SPM99/Analyze, BrainVoyager, and MetaImage volume formats. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101012043217.25065.361.report...@localhost
Re: Any information if Marcela Tiznado (m...@debian.org) still around? (package 'when')
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Any Ideas how I can proceede? Hi Salvatore, That's a long diff! I'm swamped right now. I would suggest asking the debian-qa team, either by joining their email list and asking them there, or by joining the IRC channel. More at http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/Join It's really good of you to provide updates to packages whose maintainers seem to have gone missing. That can be a thankless task, so I want to be sure to say thanks right now. (-: In particular, Salvatore, you should take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam and the "Fixed ping-intervals" that it establishes. -- Asheesh. -- Long life is in store for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.1010120110320.28...@rose.makesad.us
