[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'

[Josip Rodin]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:49:13AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in
> > /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into
> > the live location when $1 is "configure" and there is no $2.
> 
> Unfortunately, the solution is not _that_ easy since with this
> solution, pdns.simplebind will not become a dpkg conffile, making tens
> of lines of fragile code necessary to handle the file in the
> maintainer scripts.

But do you really need the file to be a conffile? You didn't have it
*at all* up to its sudden inclusion, and it wasn't a major problem,
so how would it not being a conffile suddenly become a problem?

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