traceable automatic configuration (was: How to change a gateway?)

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Bill wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 21:17 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0800, Bill wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Well, as you can see from below the file contains statements like 
> > > "please do not modify the following line."
> > 
> > Do you suppose maybe that every program that creates a configuration 
> > file with comments like that should further identify itself and the 
> > files from which it drew the data used to create the file?
> > 
> > Would this be a useful system-wide convention?
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> > 
> Very useful. And not very difficult either. 
> If a file should not be modified directly with an editor, it's only
> courteous to tell the administrator what tool to use and from there the
> man page should suffice for docs. 
> It would simplify things greatly here for example if I knew what tool(s)
> were used to create the interfaces file in the first place! 
> 
> 	b.

How should I go about bringing this to the attention of the Debian 
developers?  A wishlist bug against the Debian policy manual maybe?

-- hendrik