On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:10:11 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:47:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Regarding dpkg, its conffile handling is IMO beyond repair, it should >> be deprecated and later removed. > >Could you explain why?
- It does not give maintainers the level of control that she has with ucf - It is still (after over 15 years) a program (if not the only one) that directly prompts the user with a keyboard-needing question instead of doing it debconf- and ucf-style with selectable frontends, defaulting to a dialog-style frontend - It is documented to fail miserably when a conffile belonging to package A gets modified by package B. This is not relevant for Debian proper (since we forbid this constellation in Policy to cater for this shortcoming of our central package management tool), but making this possible would make package maintenance (e.g. sharing of a single conffile between packages) muche easier, and it would allow local administrators to have local "configuration" packages to roll out for basic site configuration without a full-fledged configuration management system. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
