[Apt-zip-devel] Re: Please release apt-zip-0.14

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate at debian.org> wrote:
 >> Other small problems:
>> - (uploader: I think I solved the problem of uploading)
>> - you changed /ZIP to /media/zip : it is correct, but it will
>>   change the behaviour of existing users, without warning.
>>   Could you add a (explicit) warning in the top of changelog?
> 
> I will; I will also add a NEWS file which has this exact purpose (btw,
> the changelog should not be the main communication means between the
> user and the developer).
> 
> Please note that the change in question is one done in the
> configuration file, thus will need an aproval from the user to
> override his own configuration file with the one in the package.

No.
If a user don't change che configuration file (i.e. use the
default), dpkg will replace with the new version, without
asking.
dpkg "is smart" so it ask only about configuration file that
you modify.

But anyway it is a n interesting question: how to handle
such modification.

cate