Updating configuration files

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, sean finney wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry for all this. The problem is that Guillem is a single point of
failure in terms of reviewing C code for dpkg.

Thanks to recent work, I'm more at ease with the C part of dpkg and I
fully intend to help him in that task so that we don't miss such
opportunities in the future.

> 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...

I'm not sure it would have changed anything. I think you took the right
technical approach. AFAIR the only thing that lacked to me was a sort of
formal specification that can be discussed separately before the
implementation itself.

Most of the blame is on the dpkg maintainers on this one. I do hope we
will see this completed in the wheezy timeframe.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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