Developers of Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 4/12/19 1:40 PM, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> Hi Luc,
> 
> 2019/04/12 19:34、Luc Didry <address@concealed>のメール:
> 
>> vendredi 12 avril 2019, 12:23:19 CEST Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>> My understanding of Luc's idea is he don't want sympa.conf-dist to be 
>>> edited by the admin. This is only holding the default values which are 
>>> overridden by the real sympa.conf file.
>>
>> Exactly! That's only a template to pick snippets from because new
>> options sometimes appear but admins don't know them since the
>> sympa.conf file is not updated at install time.
>> Now they can look at sympa.conf-dist to have a look at all the
>> options. It will not be easy to notice new options if they are not at
>> the end of the file, but it will be easier than before.
>>
>> See sympa.conf-dist like an embedded documentation.
> 
> I see.  It looks easier than reading sympa.conf(5) and figuring out how to 
> add each parameter.
> 
> If we adopted this, I think where to put sympa.conf-dist file (CONFDIR or 
> DATADIR) depends  on policy of packagers.  Should we make it controllable 
> by such as configure option?

I suppose it would belong to /usr/share/doc/sympa/examples/ in Debian

Regards
        Racke

> 
>> The job is done: https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/pull/595.
>> Now, it surely requires some cleaning: I didn't knew where to put my
>> script, so I putted it a the root of the repository.
> 
> I’ll look at it.
> 
> Regards,
> — Soji
> 
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>> Luc
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