[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug 587154

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 12/03/2010 12:37 AM, Ari T Epstein wrote:
> I added a comment to this bug report:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587154
>
> Currently, the upgrade scripts over-write /etc/sympa/sympa.conf and /etc/sympa/wwsympa.conf.  Even more problematic, they comment out the database host line so you cannot point it to another server.  If there's no sympa database with the same parameters on localhost, then the installer script fails and installation breaks.
>
> Even if the installation didn't break, my custom authentication settings for wwsympa get overridden.  This seem quite unsane.  I have been unable to figure out what code is responsible for this untoward behavior.  What's going on?
>
> -Ari

I can understand your concerns. Unfortunately, Sympa doesn't support inclusion of other configuration files as far as I know.
This would allow us to put Debian specific settings like paths and Database configuration (from dbconfig-common) in separate
files and leave the main configuration file to the user. On the other hand, ClamAV packages are doing the same rewriting
and it seems that most people are OK with that. So another solution would be to improve the code to handling the
configuration file rewrites.

Regards
	Racke

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