On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:58:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Holger Levsen writes:
>
> > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to
> > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
>
> I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database servers b
On 19/09/2010 04:39, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew McMillan writes:
>
>> In general I think providing an "opt out" option which does nothing and
>> successfully configures the package is not harmful. While automation i
>> nice, our own imagination can be limited in understanding the full range
>>
Hi,
On Sonntag, 19. September 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I do think it's okay to require that one answer a debconf prompt saying
> "no, I really don't want any configuration" in order to get that opt-out
> behavior, though, so I'm not sure that quite addresses Holger's problem.
if it would be a
Andrew McMillan writes:
> In general I think providing an "opt out" option which does nothing and
> successfully configures the package is not harmful. While automation i
> nice, our own imagination can be limited in understanding the full range
> of possibilities and we should be careful not to
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Holger Levsen writes:
>
> > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to
> > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
>
> I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database servers be
> in
hi russ,
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:58:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It's definitely worth talking about if the draft database policy says
> something else, as it appears to. My rationale is that the package setup
having re-read it yesterday i don't think that's the intention for it
to say s
Holger Levsen writes:
> please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to
> install without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database servers be
in Recommends, to have postinst prompt for what database to use, and if
sean finney writes:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:02:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to
> > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html/ch-dbapps.html#s-i
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:02:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> package: debian-policy
> x-debbugs-cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to install
> without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
http://people.debian.o
package: debian-policy
x-debbugs-cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org
Hi,
please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to install
without a local db should be treated. Thanks.
context: bugs such as #595594
h01ger: fwiw i still think that if an app needs to talk to a db
se
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