Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 21 février 2007 12:54, Frank Küster a écrit : >> To me that looks a bit more complicated than one would like, but still >> quite manageable, and acceptable for fixing a RC bug in etch. > > Not that I don't see any solution, but I would prefer to correct this > situation with the forthcoming 1.9 upgrade directly in the upgrade > script.
Just that this would leave mediawiki1.7 in etch with that bug. Up to now, the release managers have not said they would grant an etch-ignore tag. One more point to consider is that upgrading only affects people who have used testing, since sarge didn't have the package. So a new debconf question would be shown to people who should be somewhat used to see english questions. > All of this is based on my personal assumption that the RC bug is not that > important since we took care that the configuration file is never overwrited, > and added a README to warn the user, and the fact that I beleive it do not > worth to add so much change to the actual package. In other words, you fixed the weirdest misbehavior, and you documented the persisting policy violation[1]. IMHO, it's still worth writing a real patch for this bug; however, I'd like to have an opinion from the release team first. Regards, Frank [1] and in rather poor wording, I think: It's hard to understand the README if you don't know the history and just assume that a configuration file should be in /etc/ -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
