Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file
On 16-Mar-2001 Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:31:05AM -0800, phil@bolthole.com wrote:
>> It seems lintian has just newly started complaining if you dont explicitly
>> put your app-defaults file in "conffiles".
>
> Other people have addressed your remaining points, but I'd like to clarify
> one thing:
>
> App-defaults files do not have to be conffiles. They have to be
> configuration files, and may be conffiles. There's nothing inherently
> wrong with writing a set of debconf questions to control the contents of
> the app-defaults file for your package, for instance. In such a case, you
> definitely would not want to mark the app-defaults file as a conffile.
>
> Is policy not sufficiently clear about this?
>
Policy is clear, it was simply read to quickly.
However, I suspect most of these SHOULD be conffiles. I am inclined to leave
the lintian message and just like the 2% of package admins who are using
deconf/other magic use package overrides.
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