r19483 - in /desktop/unstable/gconf/debian: README.Debian changelog
joss at users.alioth.debian.org
joss at users.alioth.debian.org
Thu Apr 9 18:37:18 UTC 2009
Author: joss
Date: Thu Apr 9 18:37:18 2009
New Revision: 19483
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/?sc=1&rev=19483
Log:
README.Debian: improve documentation for the file format of the
defaults directory. Closes: #519096.
Modified:
desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/README.Debian
desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/changelog
Modified: desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/README.Debian?rev=19483&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/README.Debian (original)
+++ desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/README.Debian Thu Apr 9 18:37:18 2009
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
* /var/lib/gconf/debian.mandatory/
This directory contains mandatory settings provided by Debian, CDD or
local packages. Mandatory settings are shipped in
- /usr/share/gconf/mandatory and set by update-gconf-defaults.
+ /usr/share/gconf/mandatory and set by update-gconf-defaults (see the
+ documentation for defaults next).
* ~/.gconf/
The user's settings.
@@ -22,13 +23,18 @@
* /var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults/
This directory contains some defaults provided by Debian, CDD or local
- packages. Packages can ship files of the form NNpackage, larger NN
- values meaning larger priorities, in /usr/share/gconf/defaults/,
- before launching update-gconf-defaults. Debian packages themselves use
- 01, CDD distributions are encouraged to use values larger than 10, and
- site-specific packages can use the largest values. The purpose is for
- CDD to overwrite Debian defaults, and for site-specific packages to
- overwrite all other defaults.
+ packages. Packages should install their defaults in the
+ /usr/share/gconf/defaults/ directory. The files in this directory
+ can follow one of two formats, which is determined based on the naming
+ pattern:
+ - NN_package: simple key/value pairings
+ - NN_package.entries: standard gconftool -R format xml dump
+ NN should be 10 for Debian packages, 20 for CDD packages, and larger
+ for site-specific packages.
+
+ The contents of /var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults/ can be regenerated
+ using the update-gconf-defaults command, which is done in the
+ package's post-installation script.
* /var/lib/gconf/defaults/
This directory contains the defaults computed from the upstream
Modified: desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/changelog?rev=19483&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/changelog (original)
+++ desktop/unstable/gconf/debian/changelog Thu Apr 9 18:37:18 2009
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
gconf (2.24.0-8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Add libglib2.0-doc to build-depends to ensure proper xrefs.
+ * README.Debian: improve documentation for the file format of the
+ defaults directory. Closes: #519096.
-- Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:55:10 +0100
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