Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 12:40 +, Colin Watson wrote: > But from etch onwards, the job consists of putting the file in a > different package and adding a Replaces. There'd be nothing for a > debhelper program to do. Sure, maybe a year ago it would have been worth > it - but it's now too late to

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:08:19PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 02:50 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > How often do you think this shall be needed in this release > > cycle? Writing a general purpose dh_tool, and getting it tested, is > > not a simple task (thou

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:23:40PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > [debian-release: Read this if you care about the details. The executive > > summary is to note that openssh 1:4.3p2-8 corrects an RC bug and should > > be hinted into testing

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 02:50 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:23:40 +1100, Robert Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Fortunately, all of this is only necessary for upgrades from sarge > >> to etch, and once

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:23:40 +1100, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: >> Fortunately, all of this is only necessary for upgrades from sarge >> to etch, and once we can expect everyone to have etch's dpkg >> installed we can move con

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > [debian-release: Read this if you care about the details. The executive > summary is to note that openssh 1:4.3p2-8 corrects an RC bug and should > be hinted into testing if its five days expire without any new RC bugs; > also that all other

Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
[debian-release: Read this if you care about the details. The executive summary is to note that openssh 1:4.3p2-8 corrects an RC bug and should be hinted into testing if its five days expire without any new RC bugs; also that all other packages that have had to deal with moving conffiles between pa