It's just not going two work out every time, both the user and the
upgrade program both trying to maintain wwwoffle.conf.

Proposal: most of the changes the upgrade makes are to the
documentation. This should all be done to the wwwoffle.conf manpage,
and the documentation can now be removed from wwwoffle.conf.

Indeed, at least in the Debian model, I believe configuration files
are not to be changed behind one's back. We are to be asked if we want
to see a diff and whether to accept it or not.

Some users create their wwwoffle.conf from scripts, so changes anybody
else makes to it will get overwritten, dangnabbit.

It would be best to convey anything important that needs to be done to
wwwoffle.conf via other means: messages upon upgrade that require a
RET to continue, email to root, README.upgrade, etc.

Indeed, there should be no wwwoffle.conf supplied at all. Defaults are
defaults, the rest is the exclusive domain of the user.  Models and
examples all should be on the man page, or a wwwoffle.conf.sample.

Hmmm, for now on Debian perhaps I will do
$ perl myscript /usr/share/wwwoffle/default/wwwoffle.conf>wwwoffle.conf
after each upgrade.

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