On 2012-05-10 11:58 +0200, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:40:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> > It would be nice to provide a directories, for example,
>> > /etc/backup-manager/pre-backup.d and /etc/backup-manager/post-backup.d
>> > and set BM_PRE_BACKUP_COMMAND and BM_POST_BACKUP_COMMAND to run-parts those
>> > directories.
>> Nothing stops you from executing run-parts yourself in
>> BM_{PRE,POST}_BACKUP_COMMAND scripts if you so desire, so unless you
>> want to distribute an add-on package to backup-manager, I don't see why
>> we should complicate the Debian packaging even further.
> At the moment configuration file is not fully covered by debconf template.
True, and it will most likely never be. There are already too many
questions.
> So, any changes made manually in backup-manager.conf are lost when the
> new version of the package is installed or when dpkg-reconfigure is run.
If you accept the new file. Better results are usually obtained by
using the three-way merge option, but I don't know how to persuade ucf
to offer that option as default.
> I'm going to propose later a patch to keep configuration values during
> upgrades and dpkg-reconfigure, but I believe in this exact case default
> with run-parts can be implemented.
It certainly can, the question is at which costs. Who is going to
maintain that permanent deviation from upstream which needs to be
properly and prominently documented as well?
Cheers,
Sven
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