Hi Joost, > > > The postinst and postrm "manually" change /etc/profile, this is > > > against policy.
> > We don't have /etc/profile.d like there was on the iConnect master.
> > There is no other way to add this programm at the moment.
>
> To be honest, I wouldn't really know either :-)
>
> Nevertheless, policy has been set and adding to /etc/profile violates it.
Ok, I have requested the discussion of /etc/profile.d on debian-policy.
> > > The postinst also writes to /etc/services, which is owned by netbase.
> > > Perhaps in this case you should contact the netbase maintainer to have
> > > him add the necessary entries to /etc/services.
> >
>
> > Concerning /etc/services. We don't have a mechanism for adding
> > entries to it. As this service wasn't present at the first
> > released /etc/services file packages may not depend on its
> > presence - this means that it has to be added manually. So
> > what to do?
>
> AFAIK, /etc/services is supposed to be more of a "constant" than a
> configurable thing. IIRC it has in the past been suggested already that
> the netbase maintainer should add needed entries to it and release a newer
> version of netbase. Maybe the netbase maintainer should be asked about his
> recollections/opinion regards these matters.
The service was added a long time ago - I've asked Peter again and he
answerd that I should give him the entry. While adding it he noticed
that it's already in. So new installations should already have this
entry and the file won't be modified anymore. So this is no problem.
For compatibility with older versions of Debian/netbase the postinst
won't be changed. Thanks.
Regards,
Joey
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