Re: lintian and (non-)conffiles in /etc
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:17:58PM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> 2. it really is policy that configuration files included in a package
> must be marked as conffiles (though I can't find that in the
> Policy Manual), and
If a file is included in the .deb it'll be overwritten each time a new
version of the package is unpacked, thus losing any changes the user's
made, *unless* it is marked as a conffile.
> why do we even need conffiles? Haven't I just defined a conffile as a
> file in /etc included in a package?
Pretty much, yes.
Cheers,
aj
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