Debian Bug report logs - #204522
Personal Configuration Files

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jack Bates <jdb813@telus.net>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Personal Configuration Files

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:46:34 -0700

Package: minicom
Version: 2.1-4
Severity: wishlist

I understand that currently, all minicom configurations must be stored 
in "/etc/minicom/minirc.*" files, and that "~/.minirc.*" files only 
"overwrite" existing global configurations.

I wish minicom could load configurations from "~/.minirc.*" files for 
which corresponding global configurations do not exist.

Furthermore, I wish minicom could also load configurations from 
"~/.minicom/minirc.*" files. Placing configuration files in a 
"~/.minicom" directory would clean up my home directory the way the 
"/etc/minicom" directory cleans up the "/etc" directory.

Thanks,

Jack

Message #10 received at 204522-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de>

To: Jack Bates <jdb813@telus.net>, 204522-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#204522: Personal Configuration Files

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:32:46 +0200

tags 204522 + pending
thank you

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 14:46:34 -0700, Jack Bates wrote:

> I understand that currently, all minicom configurations must be stored 
> in "/etc/minicom/minirc.*" files, and that "~/.minirc.*" files only 
> "overwrite" existing global configurations.
> 
> I wish minicom could load configurations from "~/.minirc.*" files for 
> which corresponding global configurations do not exist.

Coming soon.

> Furthermore, I wish minicom could also load configurations from 
> "~/.minicom/minirc.*" files. Placing configuration files in a 
> "~/.minicom" directory would clean up my home directory the way the 
> "/etc/minicom" directory cleans up the "/etc" directory.

I will not implement this only for Debian, because it requires some
extra code for smooth transition of user configurations. I forward
this part to the upstream maintainer, a piece of code I wrote once,
which does this kind of task, can be found in the package wmwork,
src/wmwork.c, compat().

Kind regards,

Martin

Message #15 received at 204522-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: godisch@debian.org (Martin A. Godisch)

To: 204522-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#204522: fixed in minicom 2.1-5

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:17:15 -0400

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
minicom, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

minicom_2.1-5.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/minicom/minicom_2.1-5.diff.gz
minicom_2.1-5.dsc
  to pool/main/m/minicom/minicom_2.1-5.dsc
minicom_2.1-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/m/minicom/minicom_2.1-5_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 204522@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org> (supplier of updated minicom package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:24:23 +0200
Source: minicom
Binary: minicom
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.1-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org>
Changed-By: Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org>
Description: 
 minicom    - friendly menu driven serial communication program
Closes: 204522
Changes: 
 minicom (2.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Enabled user config files without corresponding system-wide config
     files, closes: #204522.
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