On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:41:35AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry 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 you manage an app-defaults file, or any other file in /etc as a > configuration file, by hand (not as a conffile), you cannot ship that > file in your package in /etc. Your postinst must create it on the fly, > or copy it in from a template, or whatever. So lintian's checks are > right on the money. I don't really see the harm in shipping it as long as your postinst sets it right when it runs. > (This same logic is what led me to making debhelper v3 mark all files in > /etc in the binary package as conffiles.) Ho hum. This will cost a little flexibility. -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. branden@debian.org | -- Russian saying http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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