Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
If the file is in the package, then the fact that it's a configuration file
means it must be marked as a conffile. It can only be a configuration file
without being marked as a conffile if it was constructed in a maintainer
script. So the lintian check should be left as it is.
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