Re: Bug#101127: gnome-libs-data: /etc/mime-magic.dat
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:58:09AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > "JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > JG> Can I check if I've understood correctly. What happens if I edit > JG> /etc/mime-magic; does /etc/mime-magic.dat get automatically recreated > JG> or do things break if I don't update it manually? And how do I do the > JG> latter? > > This file isn't automatically recreated, this is the sysadmin job to run > "gnome-gen-mimedb /etc/mime-magic", and this break nothing if this file > isn't up to date. In which case I would agree with you: it should be created in the postinst and removed on package removal/purge. There is no reason at all for it to be a conffile or in the package at all. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
Re: Bug#101127: gnome-libs-data: /etc/mime-magic.dat
"JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JG> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:58:09AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> "JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [...] >> JG> Can I check if I've understood correctly. What happens if I edit JG> /etc/mime-magic; does /etc/mime-magic.dat get automatically recreated JG> or do things break if I don't update it manually? And how do I do the JG> latter? >> >> This file isn't automatically recreated, this is the sysadmin job to run >> "gnome-gen-mimedb /etc/mime-magic", and this break nothing if this file >> isn't up to date. JG> In which case I would agree with you: it should be created in the JG> postinst and removed on package removal/purge. There is no reason at JG> all for it to be a conffile or in the package at all. This is done for the next release.. Christian
Re: Bug#101127: gnome-libs-data: /etc/mime-magic.dat
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> This file isn't automatically recreated, this is the sysadmin job to run > >> "gnome-gen-mimedb /etc/mime-magic", and this break nothing if this file > >> isn't up to date. > > JG> In which case I would agree with you: it should be created in the > JG> postinst and removed on package removal/purge. There is no reason at > JG> all for it to be a conffile or in the package at all. > > This is done for the next release.. Great! Thank you. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
Re: conffiles in /etc/default
Julian Gilbey wrote: > Apologies; I think I was on another planet when I did that. You are > of course totally right both about protocol and content. Reverting > that change. I'm going to write: > > It may either be a conffile or a configuration > file maintained by the package maintainer scripts. See >for more details. No problem, I'm just glad aj caught it while the issue is fresh in our minds. The fix looks fine. -- see shy jo
