[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#614716: Processed: your mail

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 13:13:09 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
>> How does it confuse users?
>
> They see files which in reality do not exist.

Where do these files live anyway?
Given that the first (and only) report about this (for Lighttpd) is
due to a tool to scan for cruft, the problem doesn't seem to be very
big.

>> > I say we're far from having it solved at a higher level, "declarative
>> > diversions" are the subject of a GSoC but there's no plan currently to do
>> > something similar with the alternatives.
>>
>> How far is far?
>>
>> To me, it sounds almost trivial.
>
> Patches welcome if you think so. We have made progress when we switched
> update-alternatives to C... it's now at least possible to reuse some of
> the code within dpkg but it's definitely not trivial.

C++ is my language of choice

My first thought was to handle this via DH though, not dpkg.


-- 
Olaf





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