Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:20:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:59:08AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 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.
This would suck, it means that if the sysadmin edits this "configuration"
file, then only certain changes (namely the ones you provided for)
will survive an upgrade.
> > 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.
Catching maintainer oversights is Lintian's primary function :)
Richard Braakman
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