| 2015-05-03 18:18:08 |
Gert van Dijk |
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The author of apt-dater decided to switch from plain text configuration files to XML [1] in 1.0.2 [2]. However, this package incorporates 1.0.1 with some commits that inadvertently introduced this backwards incompatible change as well to 1.0.1.
After upgrading Ubuntu to 15.04 I have to reconfigure all of my apt-dater configuration files without a notice in the changelog, README or any warning provided.
Either provide a configuration converter to upgrade or revert the commits introducing this backwards incompatible change. I understand some build bug was intended to be fixed by this [3], but I think this is much more painful than expected by most users. For Debian sid, this situation is fine, but not for Ubuntu stable I guess.
[1] https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/3a84efadc2f969bcc4865d57f0515d86c4d24567
[2] https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/794a62961674ea3cd17acd2c602060c0b5bd3c25
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767594 |
The author of apt-dater decided to switch from plain text configuration files to XML [1] in 1.0.2 [2]. However, this package incorporates 1.0.1 with some commits that inadvertently introduced this backwards incompatible change as well to 1.0.1.
After upgrading Ubuntu to 15.04 I have to reconfigure all of my apt-dater configuration files without a notice in the changelog, README or any warning provided. Also the manpages are not updated accordingly and still describe the 'old' .conf configuration format.
Either provide a configuration converter to upgrade or revert the commits introducing this backwards incompatible change. I understand some build bug was intended to be fixed by this [3], but I think this is much more painful than expected by most users. For Debian sid, this situation is fine, but not for Ubuntu stable I guess.
[1] https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/3a84efadc2f969bcc4865d57f0515d86c4d24567
[2] https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/794a62961674ea3cd17acd2c602060c0b5bd3c25
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767594 |
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