Hi Helmut,
I looked a bit more into this case and I found some interesting points.
Mark, I have no idea about sgml and catalogues and all this stuff, but...
* I checked the update-catalogue script, and it simply interates over
all .cat files in /etc/sgml. That by design is prone to break, as we
saw.
* the dh_installcatalogs generated code is not policy conform, well not
even anything debian related. The configure (postinst) part simply
does
rm -f /etc/sgml/openjade.cat
without any action in preinst or so.
If you do this, it means that changes to config files under /etc/sgml/
are *not* preserved
* If this is the case, that the files installed by update-catalog --add
should not be edited at all, then please put them into /var/somewhere
and all of the problems with rc are gone
* another option would be to use ucf* to put them under dpkg conffile
control when they are update-catalog --add, and remove them on
purge from the ucf catalgoue.
And in the --add action also use ucf to check for existence and status
of the files there
But, my suggestion is actually to:
- either put the .cat files into /var and not into /etc/sgml
- or create them at dh_installcatalogue (package build) time, and
let them be properly handled by dpkg. In this case also add a state
file in /var/... so that update-catalog --supercatalog does know
about which files should actually be included
That are the changes I can see, none of them being a trivial, all of them
being possible solutions for actually a bunch of RC bugs.
Best wishes
Norbert
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