Code review comment for lp:~vanvugt/ubuntu/oneiric/mediatomb/fix-212441

As you can see I've been using this fix since maverick. But it's trivial to change the version and release.

It is also easy enough to remove the dependency on /etc/default but not ideal to remove all support for /etc/default in this instance...

This patch is designed specifically to be to be trivially compatible with both the upstream Debian package, and the maverick/natty releases. However to remove the /etc/default/* requires a very ugly diff removing the file debian/mediatomb-daemon.mediatomb.default which comes from upstream. It doesn't appear that dh_installinit has any useful options to tell it to ignore the .default file in debian/rules. Is there another way?

I am happy to fix the version number and make support for /etc/default support optional. However removing /etc/default/* completely it seems will break users' configurations when upgrading to oneiric, AND will make future pulling of upstream debian changes much more painful than they would otherwise be. That's because any diff which deletes the file debian/mediatomb-daemon.mediatomb.default will eventually stop being compatible with future upstream changes.

On the other hand, if you have reviewed these potential conflicts and incompatibilities and still suggest complete removal of /etc/default/mediatomb then I'm happy to do that too.