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Bug#795164: keyboard-configuration: obsolete comment in /etc/default/keyboard



Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> (2015-08-11):
> On 2015-08-11 13:50:32 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre, le Tue 11 Aug 2015 11:53:27 +0200, a écrit :
> > > IMHO, the package should have updated the comment automatically
> > > in the past
> > 
> > AIUI, that's not how things usually work in Debian for configuration
> > files, especially free-style comments.
> 
> Packages generally ask me if I want to replace the configuration
> file by the one provided by the package, and I usually do a diff
> to see what has changed. So, in such a way, no changes remain
> invisible.

Well, ucf support could be introduced. Not sure catching a possibly
outdated comment is worth such a change though. (Also not sure how
much “settings lost on upgrade” bug reports are linked to that.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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