Re: Merging packages

2007-05-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> bug #420578 > Oh, since your statement confused me a bit, but reading the bug log > clarified it: The problem is not with any symlink pointing to conffiles, > in particular not with the common case of fix

Re: Merging packages

2007-05-15 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Also, some people might be relaying in the file's current location for >> something. Should I put a symlink in their place? > > Just a warning: Symlinks that are shipped in the deb and poi

Re: Merging packages

2007-05-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Also, some people might be relaying in the file's current location for > something. Should I put a symlink in their place? Just a warning: Symlinks that are shipped in the deb and point to conffiles (not just directories) are not a good

Re: Merging packages

2007-05-13 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 05:40:35PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:02:24AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > > > 1. I'll be shipping the compatibility script as /usr/bin/stunnel3 and > > the main v4 binary as /usr/bin/stunnel4. I'll ship a /usr/bin/stunnel > > syml

Re: Merging packages

2007-05-13 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:02:24AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > 1. I'll be shipping the compatibility script as /usr/bin/stunnel3 and > the main v4 binary as /usr/bin/stunnel4. I'll ship a /usr/bin/stunnel > symlink pointing at the wrapper for now, and eventually (after lenny, > for

Merging packages

2007-05-13 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
stunnel (which I'm adpoting) has two mutually incompatible major upstream versions, 3 and 4. Back when 4 was first released, the maintainer packaged it separately, as stunnel4, to avoid the major grief of forcing such an update on users. Since then, stunnel4 has grown a compatibility wrapper scrip