Drop debathena-transform-lighttpd

[d4nuu8]

This patch replaces the currently used mechanism to deploy a lighttpd configuration to the intitvm.

Instead of creating the debathena-transform-lighttpd Debian package, the configuration will be deployed by preseeding to the initvm.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Braunwarth daniel@braunwarth.dev

[jogness]

Your commit message is missing some very important information: "Why is this change needed?"

Configuration packages are cleaner than blindly overwriting configuration files. Please explain the motivation for such a change.

[d4nuu8]

Configuration packages are cleaner than blindly overwriting configuration files.

Yes, I would agree to this if the configuration package would deliver a explicitly defined configuration file. I would not agree to how it is done at the moment.

Relying on a package's (in this case lighttpd) default configuration and just replacing a bit here and a bit there with sed is nothing I would do.

So the initial intention was to get rid from the usage of sed and check-in a explicitly defined configuration.

One maybe better approach than what this patch is doing, could be to add the configuration file to the python3-elbe-buildenv package and add lighttpd as a dependency to it.

What do you think?

[jogness]

I disagree that using sed to make the necessary changes is a bad thing. Modifying the default configuration is exactly what I would do if I were configuring lighttpd by hand. It also makes it clear what is being configured.

But if you insist on providing a new file, that can also be done with debathena. I don't understand your aversion towards debathena. It is the most elegant method of managing configuration changes.

[d4nuu8]

Why would I insist? You guys are maintaining this thing. 😉

Thanks for your time and opinion on this.

I'm closing this pull request.