On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 21:10 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 20:45 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > > > These should hit tomorrow's rawhide but unfortunately it means that the > > > profiles have been renamed. I have included a script named > > > "upgrade-haze-profiles.sh" (installed as documentation) with Empathy > > > that automagically fixes this on a per-user basis; but this script needs > > > to be run manually. > > > > Forgot to add: You may need to install the 'util-linux-ng' package (for > > the rename tool used in the script). > > Peter: > > First, thanks for including this. There's quite a few of these types of > bugs lurking in various packages and it makes me happy when I see > maintainers actively fighting them. > > That said, I've got two questions: > > 1) What users will be affected? Anyone who's ever installed any version > of empathy, or only people who have had certain versions installed? If > the latter, which versions? > > 2) Why couldn't this be done as part of the package's %post script? Typically we don't try to muck with things in people's ~'s in %post. Among other things, it's entirely too fragile in the face of network file systems and/or distributed user databases. It would be more useful if the UI could notice the existence of an old-style user profile and invoke the migration script for you. - ajax
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