On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:30:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> As I understand
> policy (see the excerpt at the end of this message), conffiles should never be
> modified in maintainer scripts. Configuration files should be distributed as
> part of the package (either as conffiles or not), or else created and managed
> by maintainer scripts, but not both.
If a configuration is shipped as part of the package it *must* be declared
as a conffile, otherwise the user's changes will be lost on upgrade. But
otherwise, yes.
> Quoth the Policy [section 4.7.3]:
> This implies that the default version
> will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified by the
^^^^^^^^
> maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time).
Thus you should file a serverity: serious bug against these packages, and
they need to be fixed before release.
Cheers,
aj
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