Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: important [Severity set as important, because the lack of a requirement can have serious implications, including security ones.]
Configuration is sometimes represented in another way than contents of a configuration file, e.g. a set of symbolic links. However there is absolutely no reason to regard such information as less important than the contents of a configuration file. This is particularly true for 10.7.3, e.g. the Debian policy should require that local changes in symbolic links (or whatever that can represent a configuration) must be preserved during an upgrade. An example is bug 412159 that is not regarded as a release-critical bug though one of the settings is not preserved, because the corresponding configuration is represented by a symbolic link somewhere in /etc. Note: though in this bug, the lost configuration is just one bit of information, this is still annoying, and in general, symbolic links can also represent much more information and possibly configuration related to security/privacy settings. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]