Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't sound good for me. Let's consider fglrx driver. I would like > to stay tuned with fglrx from Debian package. But sometimes I have a > problems running an OpenGL application. In such cases I use an flgrx > directly from ATI to verify if

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cut] > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to > > remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to g

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] >> Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to >> remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to get some confirmation > before adding something to Policy 10.7.3 about this. See Bu

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, why it still exists? I read Debian Policy, section 10.7.3[1] but it > does not say what shall happen if after upgrade of the package it does > not provide conffile anymore. > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesy

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to > remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? That's correct. The only way currently to remove obsolete conffiles is to do it manually in the maintainer scripts [1] I