Julian Gilbey wrote: > No, no, no! Read the section on configuration files in policy, in > particular 4.7.3. Configuration files need not be conffiles, but > must nevertheless not be modified by package upgrades. That's an oversimplifiction; upgrades may modify them (or there is no point to them not being conffiles), but upgrades "must not overwrite or otherwise mangle the user's configuration without asking". -- see shy jo