On 2006-05-04 18:02:31 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Yes, it says that local changes must be preserved; it does not say > that the package may not attempt to upgrade config files.
If it attempts to upgrade something the user has changed, this isn't much different. Moreover the /etc/X11/xorg.conf says: # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. So, with the latest upgrade, this was plainly wrong. > The possible fontpath duplication for users who had already upgraded > to modular was a known issue when this handling was put in place, > but this consideration was secondary to the need to provide upgrade > handling for all the users being left without font support. There could be a dialog box to ask the user if he wanted to update the config file. Also, the upgrade script could check if new paths were already added. > Does this duplication cause any problems for you, or is it merely > cosmetic? This adds useless bloat to the config file and to diffs (when one tracks diffs of config files, e.g. with diffmon), making it more difficult to maintain. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
