Hi! On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 12:19:11 +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > While adopting package "cruft", I found that an objective of original[1] > author ajt has never been reached.
Yeah, this is currently a deficiency in dpkg, and should be integrated into it properly. > This is a new, scaled down proposal: https://wiki.debian.org/Cruft/purge > that basicaly propose to turn the most easy cases of > > > #debian/postrm > > if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then > > rm -f /var/lib/somefile > > fi > into machine-readable files that only contains the paths > > You may not want to read 30-some mails from 1998 [2] ; I did. > > Some may request to add extra features (like "*" globbing, volatile files); > but I think this simpler proposal has already many advantages, > and I don't see any downside; except from depending on a precise dpkg > on standard-verions. Hmm, most (if not all) of the examples you list are configuration files, those should be integrated into dpkg as maintainer-managed "conffiles". But in any case, your proposal seems like a partial fix for what should be the proper solution, and asking maintainers to switch to something that will be changing implies making them do twice the work for something that is actually pretty trivial currently. For 1.18.x I'm planning to get the file metadata tracking in the db, the conffiles db and support for dynamically registerd files, which should ideally cover the cruft stuff properly. > I would like to contribute code for this if you're interested. Sure, let me get 1.17.23 out of the way, and then I'll open up 1.18.x and start discussions around the above topics (where I'll gladly Cc you too, if you are not subscribed to the list). > At first, do you mind If I move my wiki page in the "Teams/Dpkg/Proposals/" > namespace ? Not at all, go ahead. We can rework or rename the page later on. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141206140501.gc15...@gaara.hadrons.org
