Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

1998-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Philip Hands wrote: >> Kevin Dalley wrote, referring to Bug#18118: >> >It would be nice if postgresql upgrade would remove the lines from >> >/etc/crontab which were added by previous version of postgresql. >> >> For a while, it did. Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to >

Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

1998-03-27 Thread Philip Hands
> Kevin Dalley wrote, referring to Bug#18118: > >It would be nice if postgresql upgrade would remove the lines from > >/etc/crontab which were added by previous version of postgresql. > > For a while, it did. Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to > modify /etc/crontab, which is why I

Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

1998-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Joey Hess wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> For a while, it did. Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to >> modify /etc/crontab, which is why I have taken it out. > >I think it's allowable to violate policy to if you have to, to clean up past >policy violations. If you do it right

Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

1998-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Elphick wrote: > For a while, it did. Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to > modify /etc/crontab, which is why I have taken it out. I think it's allowable to violate policy to if you have to, to clean up past policy violations. If you do it right, it's as if the modification never

Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

1998-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Kevin Dalley wrote, referring to Bug#18118: >It would be nice if postgresql upgrade would remove the lines from >/etc/crontab which were added by previous version of postgresql. For a while, it did. Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to modify /etc/crontab, which is why I have taken i

Re: Stripping ELF .note and .comment sections?

1998-03-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> In fact, this is a great summary of my reasons for not putting it in > debhelper. :-) What can be done is to parse README.Debian for tokens, and insert this kind of info there: --README.Debian: I'm the maintainer,, i downloaded it from wustls.oakland.ncsa.huhuhu.edu.gov tool 1.0-2 is