Updating configuration files

[sean finney]

hi barry, steve,

fyi my on-list messages are getting moderated--what happened to "every
debian developer is an ubuntu developer"? :)

so, you might want to break etiquite and top-post to this message, or
at least generously quote since the context might otherwise be missing.

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:29:18PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Are your patches still available?  I'd love to take a look just for kicks.

  http://git.debian.org/?p=users/seanius/dpkg.git;a=summary

i think the most up to date version of the patch series is the
branch named seanius-conffiledb-20091204.  

the last technical related discussion was in the thread starting here

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/12/msg00041.html

ending around here:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2010/02/msg00041.html

and the last comments i had on it are here:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2010/06/msg00037.html

so i didn't exactly leave in a huff, but i did signal that i had
no further intention of wasting my time until i had some idea
that it would actually go anywhere.

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:13:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> This last is the one is the way to go, but it really should be pulled into
> dpkg itself.  I don't recall if Sean's patches were based on ucf or not.  In
> the meantime, use of ucf requires explicit action by the package maintainer,
> so it's generally only the real problem children that get converted over to
> its use.

my changes were directly into dpkg, with the intention to incorporate
the ucf feature set into dpkg proper.  my thinking was that dpkg really
ought to keep the pristine version of these files around *anyway*, since
it could be a generally useful thing to have.  

in hindsight maybe i should have worked with manoj to implement a libucf
and supply a finished product usable by dpkg.  hmm...


	sean