Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:22:45 +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: >I suppose I thought simpler handling and dropping an unnecessary dependency >was a >step forward. I would be all for doing it the other way around: First address the remaining usability and completeness issues in ucf and then happily depre

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Mark Hindley
Steve, Many thanks for your input on this. On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:52:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > And dropping ucf handling is certainly not required for addressing Policy > 4.1.3 compatibility, which is what you mention in the changelog. > > Why do you think it's necessary here to re

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mark, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 02:21:03PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Hello, > I am working on fixing bug #905178 which is caused by moving away from using > ucf > to manage /etc/default/apt-cacher back to handling it as a standard dpkg > conffile. > I have a working solution which avoids un

Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-22 Thread Mark Hindley
Hello, I am working on fixing bug #905178 which is caused by moving away from using ucf to manage /etc/default/apt-cacher back to handling it as a standard dpkg conffile. I have a working solution which avoids unnecessary prompting. This is to remove the ucf version of the file in the preinst unl