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This files describes the mechanism used to enable or not lighttpd conf file
on configure.
Rationale
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When a package is removed, its links in conf-enabled must be deleted. Not doing
so will usually result in the use of removed data, and might cause httpd start
failure.
Note that in the case of javascript-common, we could have decided to disable
/javascript on purge rather that on removal, but that would have made package
usage inconsistent with common practice.
The problem is that the user might disable the module by just deleting the link,
for example by using lighttpd-disable-mod command.
We must not recreate that link if that's the case. A missing link should be
considered as local user configuration choice.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474913#33
A basic solution might be not to recreate it on updates testing "$2" is empty
in postinst.
But then if the package is uninstalled and not purged the information is lost.
The complete solution consists in storing inside the configuration, meaning in
/etc, the fact during uninstall, that the link was aleady removed.
Implementation
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prerm remove|upgrade: If conf-enabled link was removed, create a file
/etc/javascript-common/lighttpd_disabled_by_user
postinst configure: Enable on fresh installs and old upgrades. On other
upgrades, check file lighttpd_disabled_by_user to enable or not.
That file is not a conffile, we don't want the user to be bugged during
upgrades about a change he did not make.
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