On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 12:59:25PM -0400, David Bremner wrote: > Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > > In any case, this is an upstream choice, not a packaging choice, so we > > have to use what upstream provide. > > Just to be clear using /etc/default is not an upstream choice, it's a > Debian convention. I know you probably didn't mean to imply that, but > that's how it read to me.
The context is that some package are configured via setting some environment variable or command line parameter instead of reading a config file at start up, and this is precisely the situation when /etc/default is used. I argue that whether to use command line parameters or to read a config file is an upstream choice. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
