Re: conffiles versus configuration files
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
[snip]
> Secondly, Christian: can you merge this text or something with
> identical meaning into the manual and also check references in the
> manual to configuration files and conffiles and make sure that the
> right term is used in each case ? Someone recently posted a list of
> places where they thought the wrong term had been used and I followed
> up arguing with only one of them. For the record, I agreed with the
> others.
I agreed, too :)
Note, that when we last discussed this topic I finally came up with some
definitions of the terms `conffile' and `configuration file' that everyone
agreed with. Fixing the manuals in this respect is already on my policy
TO-DO list and I'll do so soon. (I'll post the new definitions of these
terms here for approval first.)
I'll report to debian-policy as soon as I had time to dig into this issue
again and as I've prepared the necessary changes/fixes.
Thanks,
Chris
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