On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:09:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I have fewer qualms about a package that only wipes out a config file when > explicitly reconfigured; most of my ire is reserved for packages, like > apt-listchanges, that drop local modifications to such files on upgrade. > Especially when the files are (as in the case of listchanges.conf) trivial > to parse and modify without loss.
The situation with apt-listchanges is not ideal, but it is also not as bad as you make it seem. You said the same thing about how trivial it was to parse the config file before, and it has almost entirely changed its format since then. Supporting that kind of thing (parsing multiple config file formats) with single-purpose scripts is not appealing to me. I am working on something better that will be general-purpose, and I will be using it in apt-listchanges as part of a test deployment. -- - mdz
