On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:38 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > There is an upgraded BackupPC in the testing repository. It is version > > 3.0.0, which was released in January. > > > > The setup differences between version 2.1.2 and this version is that > > some file directories have shifted locations: > > > > 1. /var/lib/backuppc/conf is now instead /etc/BackupPC/ > > > > 2. /var/lib/backuppc/log is now /var/log/BackupPC > > As a packager, I would seriously consider removing the mixed-case from the > directory names (and package name) and contact backuppc about this fact. > > In Unix we have a tendency to not use uppercase or mixed case for a > specific reason and applications shouldn't mandate new standards or poison > existing standards, more than they already have. (/etc/X11 comes to mind) > I do not disagree with this at all ... however, there is much documentation written that becomes worthless if I change those aspects of the program (location of config files, and logs, etc.). I certainly could change all those things (I did add 64bit arch support, for example) ... but I do not want to also then rewrite all docs, etc.
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