Re: "All packages use debconf"

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> writes:

> Debconf is not compatible with conffiles, and I'd much rather have a
> good default and a conffile rather than hacked together debconf
> script asking low priority questions that I will never even see
> overwriting my changes.

Maybe a good compromise would be to notice that /etc/foo/bar.conf
already exists, and offer the user the choice of deleting it and
starting again from the original "bar.conf" distributed with the
package (perhaps stored as /usr/share/doc/foo/examples/bar.conf).