On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:24:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Policy has not always been clear about conffiles vs configuration > files. Fortunately this is expected to improve some day. If it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles, it's a conffile. If you are not the maintainer of the package which registers those conffiles, and you piss on them without using a documented procedure, you're violating policy, as well as the integrity of the system. Is that clear enough for you? -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially good Debian GNU/Linux | idea, because it tends to suppress any branden@ecn.purdue.edu | hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Carl Sagan
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