Re: timezone -> timezones (why?)
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > Also, please, do not make /etc/timezone a conffile in the new timezones
> > package, because according to dpkg's packaging manual:
> >
> > 9.2 Fully-featured maintainer script configuration handling
> >
> > For files which contain site-specific information such as the hostname
> > and networking details and so forth, it is better to create the file
> > in the package's postinst script.
> >
> > [...]
>
> I'm not sure what this has to do with /etc/timezone.
The rationale for this is also in the policy:
"Packages should try to minimise the amount of prompting they need to do".
When a package has a "conffile", dpkg always asks about this file being
replaced or not by the version inside the .deb file. But in this case:
Who will want to replace, say, "Europe/Madrid" by "Factory"? This is a
stupid question! That's why the policy says it is much better not to use
conffiles "for files which contain site-specific information".
> I can see your point, I just don't see any reason to change what works
> simply because you don't like the idea of using conffiles.
Perhaps I didn't explain well in my first mail about this. It is our
policy who says we should try to minimise the amount of prompting.
Thanks.
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