On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:30:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > As I understand > policy (see the excerpt at the end of this message), conffiles should never be > modified in maintainer scripts. Configuration files should be distributed as > part of the package (either as conffiles or not), or else created and managed > by maintainer scripts, but not both. If a configuration is shipped as part of the package it *must* be declared as a conffile, otherwise the user's changes will be lost on upgrade. But otherwise, yes. > Quoth the Policy [section 4.7.3]: > This implies that the default version > will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified by the ^^^^^^^^ > maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time). Thus you should file a serverity: serious bug against these packages, and they need to be fixed before release. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Thanks to all avid pokers out there'' -- linux.conf.au, 17-20 January 2001
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