RE: /etc/mailname
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > [ about /etc/mailname ].
> > But some package should own it yes.
>
> It has never been a requirement that every file in the system
> should be owned in the "dpkg -S" sense by some package.
However, if a file is deleted that is not owned by any package, then no
package should have a problem with that. I don't think that's the case for
/etc/mailname. I seem to recall having mail sent as 'mjp16@<null>' (yes,
entirely literal string) at one point in the dim past, as a result of not
having an /etc/mailname.
If a package wants a file, it should either own it or depend on a package
that does.
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Matthew Palmer
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