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Re: Why two copies of CONF.sh?



On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:31:58AM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> As I was reviewing the diff between 3.1.0 and 3.1.1, I noticed that  
> CONF.sh shows up twice in my diff, which begs the (trivial) question:   
> Why are we shipping two identical files in the source package?  :)
>
> ab7b76c3b77f9d2ef12c7254e0f0f1f7  CONF.sh
> ab7b76c3b77f9d2ef12c7254e0f0f1f7  debian/CONF.sh
>
> It appears at first glance that only the version in debian/ is actually  
> used/installed anywhere.
>
> No biggie... just a curiosity. :)

Good question... :-)

It was set up that way a long time ago, so that we could potentially
have a different config in use in svn compared to what we ship in the
package itself. I don't think that's such a useful distinction to have
these days, so I'd happily remove it if nobody objects.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt


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