[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#409434: Upgrade

[Romain Beauxis]

Le jeudi 8 février 2007 22:17, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > I think the bug #388616 should be granted this etc-ignore. The
> > configuration file is never shiped with the package nor generated by the
> > software. It is generated in config/ directory, and happen normaly only
> > at first install.
>
> My question here is, if the software looks for the config in /var/lib out
> of necessity, why does the package ship a symlink under /etc/ when that
> symlink a) will overwrite any attempts by the user to turn this into a real
> file (for whatever reason), and b) will complicate upgrades in the future
> when mediawiki's FHS bug is fixed so that the conffile *can* be moved to
> /etc?

Yes we could just remove the link and add a file like README.mediawiki or any 
other name in which we just explain where the user can find the confile...

Indeed, that would propably be enought to close the two other bug for a small 
amount of change this time.


Romain
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