On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 00:32, Rahul Amaram <amaramra...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi Neil, > Thanks for the response. I didn't intend to work on this update as per my > leisure. I greatly admire the Debian release team for the effort they put > in, in trying to make Debian a great experience to the end users. As I've > already told you, I am new and therefore didn't know of the deep-freeze of > Squeeze. Or else I would have definitely worked on it earlier itself. > > Anyway, coming back to the solution. This is what I plan to do. Kindly > provide any necessary feedback. > > 1. Stop the server in preinst and if necessary copy the current > configuration file to a temporary location. > 2. In postinst, write python code to check if NSS directory service is being > used (by parsing the configuration file) and if so take the appropriate > action. Once this is done, delete the temporary copy of configuration file. > > Also I believe for this, python needn't be added to Pre-Depends but only to > Depends. >
I still think adding python to Depends only because a maintainer script needs it is costing too much, if the application itself doesn't need python at all. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinvco8vf+ns3k1+6kbxgz2corze9arx4_ojc...@mail.gmail.com
