On 09/17/2012 01:57 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Oh well yes, bad example. We still have a lot of packages which modify >> /etc/default/* with debconf. Portmap, sysstat, ... - and they are >> supposed to be conffiles - [...] > > Why are they supposed to be conffiles? It's fine for them to be not. > (Which is true, e.g., for portmap.)
To cite http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt: Packages' /etc/default scripts must be treated as configuration files. > > Kind regards > Philipp Kern > > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50572d41.9040...@bzed.de
