On Sun, 22 May 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 21-05-2005 00:45, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > my hack does nothing in itself, the gconf path file is not being changed > > behind the admin's back, or on the packages initiative. > > _The_admin_is_the_acting_party_ > > > Please elaborate on Debian Policy section 10.7.4, paragraph 2: > > > The maintainer scripts must not alter a `conffile' of _any_ package, > > including the one the scripts belong to.
Also, the sarge rc policy outlines it in even more detail: http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt Packages must not modify their own or other packages conffiles programmatically. (The only correct way to modify a conffile is the user running an editor specifically; if anything more automated is required or useful, configuration files must _NOT_ be handled as conffiles) Since that .../path file is a conffile it should be pretty clear that even asking the admin and then doing it is not acceptable. -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
