On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > I need some help regarding #493781: the submitter reported the bug as grave > because he thinks that modifying slapd.conf to include an extra LDAP schema > from the maintainer scripts of a package (phamm-ldap in this case) is > against the Debian policy. > > Considering that slapd.conf is not (anymore) a conffile, in my opinion this > behaviour is not forbidden from the Debian policy and thus the bug report > could be closed without any change to the phamm-ldap package.
The submitter is right. | Packages must not modify other packages' configuration files | except by an agreed upon APIs (eg, a /usr/sbin/update-foo | command). http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt section 3. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]