Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > That would be contrary to the philosophy behind those files, namely, that: > > * They are under the control of the system admin. > * They are not "canonical". It should be ok to change them. > * You should not really *need* to update them, unless your goal is to > have a system which is 100% identical to a newly-installed one.
I'm somewhat puzzled here. Don't all of these points also apply to most current conffiles (think for example /etc/ntp.conf)? I previously thought that /etc/profile was not a conffile because it might be very risky to update it during upgrade (even if the user is consulted, users might sometimes not see all the implications -- like having dropbear break unexpectedly). > * Add a question to the existing FAQ. > * Rename FAQ to README.Debian and add a paragraph (or a new question) there. > > What do you think it would be best? Both sound ok to me. When I hit a problem I personally usually start by reading README.Debian so my preference would probably be to merge FAQ to README.Debian. I must confess that when I reported the bug I did not even notice that there was an FAQ file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
