Re: lintian and (non-)conffiles in /etc

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

> 
> Some stuff in sendmail like /etc/mail/sendmail.cf  This file should not (is
> not? never actually checked) be marked as a conffile but it
> certainly does belong in /etc/mail. It shoudn't be marked as conffile because
> it is generated from other files (conffiles). Hence if lintian
> does check for such things it should only report a warning [since generated
> files should be generated on install] but not an error if a
> non-conffile is found in /etc.
> 

If you check policy generated files are not only exempt but specifically NOT
supposed to be conffiles.