Resolvconf rewrites it without confirmation also, afaik.

On 05/23/2010 11:58 AM, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Holger Levsen wrote:
>   
>> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies files from 
>> another 
>> package in /usr. This is so wrong, I'm not even bothered to look up the part 
>> of policy this violates ;-P
>>     
>   
>> 0m18.4s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have been modified:
>>   /etc/resolv.conf    not owned
>>     
> hi, holger:
>
> technically, /etc/resolv.conf is in /etc, not /usr :) and afaict, no
> package owns /etc/resolv.conf; i believe, like /etc/hosts, that it's
> written by debian-installer?  so there may not be an explicit policy
> against this behavior.  there's a lot of software in debian that
> rewrites /etc/resolv.conf (resolvconf, DHCP clients, etc) but i think
> this is the only package that rewrites /etc/resolv.conf without asking
> or through some action that the user takes.
>
>   




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