Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Wegscheider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all answers > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it a conffile or just a configuration file? > It is a configuration file (/etc/rsnapshot.conf) holding all options > and backup points. > >> Depending on the severity of "no

Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Christoph Wegscheider wrote: > Thanks for all answers > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it a conffile or just a configuration file? > It is a configuration file (/etc/rsnapshot.conf) holding all options > and backup points. And users may very well (and do) u

Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-19 Thread Christoph Wegscheider
Thanks for all answers Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it a conffile or just a configuration file? It is a configuration file (/etc/rsnapshot.conf) holding all options and backup points. > Depending on the severity of "not wanted", you could simply disable the > script until the conf

Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
Christoph Wegscheider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I maintain the rsnapshot package, which is a perl script for backups. > > In the next upstream version there will be changes which WILL break > almost all setups. One has to modify the conf file to avoid that. Is it a conffile or just a co

Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Christoph Wegscheider wrote: > I maintain the rsnapshot package, which is a perl script for backups. > In the next upstream version there will be changes which WILL break > almost all setups. One has to modify the conf file to avoid that. > According to

Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Christoph Wegscheider wrote: > According to the developer reference (6.3.4) such changes should be > mentioned in the News.Debian file. I think that's not enough, because > if one doesn't change the conf file rsnapshot will not fail, but will > do things (m

best way to announce important changes

2005-01-18 Thread Christoph Wegscheider
Hi, I maintain the rsnapshot package, which is a perl script for backups. In the next upstream version there will be changes which WILL break almost all setups. One has to modify the conf file to avoid that. According to the developer reference (6.3.4) such changes should be mentioned in the New