Bug#333294: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#333294: Info received (A patch for the default mirror)

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > I was thinking over this code this weekend, and I am worried about this one case:
> > 
> > 1. user install pbuilder, lets pbuilder overwrite the config
> > 2. user finds that auto-detected value doesn't work (it didn't have the right arch, etc.)
> >  and modifies /etc/pbuilderrc
> > 
> > 3. user upgrades pbuilder
> > 
> > I have a gut feeling that pbuilder won't ask if it should overwrite
> > the config file in 3, and the user is going to end up with a broken
> > config.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> No, by default, an existing pbuilderrc generates "don't overwrite config" behaviour.
> 
> If the user fixes the pbuilderrc file, on upgrade his modification will be preserved.

I might have been unclear: 

If the user has once answered 'Yes' to the question "Overwrite
config", if the user fixes the pbuilderrc file, will the user be
prompted by the question again or will pbuilder silently rewrite the
file on upgrade?

regards,
	junichi
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