Re: Fwd: Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-27 Thread Taher Shihadeh
On 25 Mar 2008, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 25 March 2008 16:46:48 GMT+01:00 > > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Cc: Álvaro López Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Josselin Mouette dijo [Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:53:56AM +0100]: > Why in preinst ? I think it can be done in config/postinst the usual > way. And of course, this question should be skipped if the file has not > been modified, and not have a too high priority. Agree with you here, it makes more sens

Re: Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, On mar, 2008-03-25 at 09:46 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > 1- At preinst, ask via Debconf if user wants the script to perform the >automatic conversion. Why in preinst ? I think it can be done in config/postinst the usual way. And of course, this question should be skipped if the file has n

Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, The new upstream version of a package I maintain (Cherokee, a lightweight extensible web server) requires the configuration file to be completely rewritten - Version 0.6.x will just not parse 0.5.x's config file. It does ship a converter, but of course, nobody will claim it is perfect. The n