Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On 29-05-2005 21:43, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
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> >>It is a violation of Debian Policy to mess with conffiles of other
> >>packages, and http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt section
> >>3 adds this:
> Also, config files seemingly not owned by a specific package (like
> /etc/hosts.allow ) is edited as well. Don't know if that is fine to mess
> with programmatically.
Could someone comment on this? Its not clear to me what the policy is
on thos configuration files which are not conffiles. It seems that
there is meant to be an established mechanism for editting such files,
(/usr/bin/update-foo) and therefore that an update such as:
echo ALL: foo.bar.com >>/etc/hosts.allow
would be disallowed by policy, but a (hypothetical) update such as:
/usr/bin/update-hosts.allow ALLOW ALL FROM foo.bar.com
would be acceptible (if allowing such connections was justified).
Justin
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