On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:59:08AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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. Wrong. You can ship the file and then have it doctored by some mechanism that your package uses. > So the lintian check should be left as it is. That may be so, but only because of the statistical likelihood of it being a maintainer oversight, not a policy violation by definition. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux | then believe; if you wish to be a branden@debian.org | devotee of truth, then inquire. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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