On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:39:18PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 11-Jul-99, 19:58 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 4.7.4. Sharing configuration files > > ---------------------------------- > > > > Only packages that are tagged _conflicting_ with each other may > > specify the same file as `conffile'. > > > > A package may not modify a conffile of another package. > > > > > > > > Perhaps this last line should be changed to indicate that: > > > > * the maintainer scripts should not alter the conffile of ANY package, > > including the one the scripts belong to. > > Covered by the second paragraph of 4.7.3, but no problem with > re-emphasizing here.
I thought that it might imply, by omission, that modifying the conffiles of its own package would be acceptable (although yes it is covered by 4.7.3). > by deliberate, obvious request of the sysadmin. It's ok to have a > special/specialized editor to modify a conffile, but it should never be > run by anything except a human, and it should be obvious to that human > that the conffile is being modified. Agreed. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
