[RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Stephen Powell recently reminded the kernel team that LILO is not automatically updated on installation of a new kernel version in lenny. In fact there is a general problem that there are several different ways a boot loader may be updated automatically and currently no guarantee that this does hap

Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we could receive feedback from testers. The new release is available from Debian/unstable and

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:58:55PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What do you want us to review? The work on dpkg-maintscript-helper was > heavily inspired by the content of that page. Feel free to replace it by a > pointer to the dpkg-maintscript-helper documentation. I was mainly concerned by p

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:46:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its > > location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at > > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling > > Or

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: > As documented in its manpage, at least. It looks a tad misleading, though: > > | But in many cases the operation done by the program is not critical > | for the package, and instead of using a pre-dependency we can call the > program > | only if we

Bug#586348: ITP: panflute -- GNOME panel applet to control several music players

2010-06-18 Thread FladischerMichael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: fladischermich...@fladi.at -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: panflute Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Paul Kuliniewicz * URL : https://launchpad.net/panflute * License : GPL Programming La

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-06-18, Julien Cristau wrote: [dpkg-maintscript-helper] >> This means though, your package needs to add a versioned depends on dpkg,= > which >> imho is not so nice. > Make that pre-depends, since you need it in preinst iirc. As documented in its manpage, at least. It looks a tad mislead

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 18:10:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 18.06.2010 17:15, James Vega wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its > >> location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 18.06.2010 18:10, schrieb Michael Biebl: On 18.06.2010 17:15, James Vega wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgCon

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.06.2010 17:15, James Vega wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its >> location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at >> http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling > > dpkg-maintscript-he

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:46:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I assume the file in question is a conffile. If you just want to move its > location, read the section "Moving a conffile" at > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling Or rather dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) . By the way, I believe

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 18.06.2010 16:06, Thomas Hood wrote: >> It is planned that an upcoming version of resolvconf will add a new hook >> script for isc-dhcp-client which is identical to the existing one for >> dhcp3-client.  An administrator who has made loca

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.06.2010 16:06, Thomas Hood wrote: > It is planned that an upcoming version of resolvconf will add a new hook > script for isc-dhcp-client which is identical to the existing one for > dhcp3-client. An administrator who has made local changes to the latter > hook script should probably make

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] > It is planned that an upcoming version of resolvconf will add a new > hook script for isc-dhcp-client which is identical to the existing one > for dhcp3-client. An administrator who has made local changes to the > latter hook script should probably make the same changes to the > fo

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 16:06 Fri 18 Jun , Thomas Hood wrote: > It is planned that an upcoming version of resolvconf will add a new hook > script for isc-dhcp-client which is identical to the existing one for > dhcp3-client. An administrator who has made local changes to the latter > hook script should proba

FAI workshop

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, again this year, we will held a FAI workshop meeting from july 2-4 at the Linuxhotel (http://www.linuxhotel.de) in Essen, Germany. People which already use FAI meet there to work the whole weekend on improving the FAI software like we did in the past. If you have experiences with FAI and

How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Hood
It is planned that an upcoming version of resolvconf will add a new hook script for isc-dhcp-client which is identical to the existing one for dhcp3-client. An administrator who has made local changes to the latter hook script should probably make the same changes to the former. Is there a ne