On Sun, Nov 29 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > here are a lot of things upstream can do that's undone at packaging in > order to comply with Debian policy. If it *were* (a big if, of > course) the policy that local-* files are sacred then something should > be done. On the other hand that finding a [mycompany]-whatever would > be odd is just a matter of statistics.
But that is no such dictum in policy. > And regarding behaviour, because of Debian Policy's D.2.2 Size and > MD5sum. Since md5sums are already part of the binary package > definition it might be expected a good thing the same kind of logic > like that of config files to be applied. Is it current checksum > different from both the version installed and the new one? Then shout > out loud. Again, why having two different behaviours when you can > have one? The files under /etc are configuration files, with some expectation that the admin usually does need to modify them. All other drirectories are not under such a protection. If you want to change policy, this is the wrong forum. As things stand today, use files and data under /usr (and not /usr/local) are not guaranteed, and there should be no expectation of them being preserved. manoj -- If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. You're the sucker. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org