Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> writes: > I'd consider packages which require editing of the init script instead > of using /etc/default or similar to be badly designed at best. I know > fixing the mass of existing packages would be too big a job, but I > thought it might be possible to provide a new option in dh_installdeb > and encourage its use for new packages.
It's impossible to anticipate all the ways in which one may need to modify init scripts. I still have to do this routinely for Debian packages, and for reasons and in ways that I don't see how the maintainer could easily deal with via /etc/default. I think the current behavior is correct, particularly given the *substantial* simplicity gain from being able to treat everything in /etc as a conffile. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrl1w330....@windlord.stanford.edu
