On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:16:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Uh, I'm not sure this is a good example. Hasn't shared/news/server > existed for years? Both the newsreaders I maintain use it and have done > so since at least May 2000 and December 2001 respectively. That template > name was already well-established then. Well, we had trouble finding any sort of established question. It wasn't documented anywhere for us to find, as far as I know. Maybe buried in a mailing list post or two somewhere.
> I agree that better use of the shared namespace would be an improvement: > I'd suggest /etc/mailname management as an example of something that's > ad-hoc at the moment. debconf-doc seems like the correct package in > which to put a registry. Works for me. Of course, the debconf maintainer should weigh in on the idea of adding to his package. - David Nusinow