On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:22:53PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> > Subject: Re: lintian and (non-)conffiles in /etc > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:53:34 -0800 (PST) > > > Policy does not require files in /etc to be marked as conffiles. When I > > Agreed. Then don't you think that the lintian' message is > inappropriate? no, /etc files shipped IN the package, must be conffiles, no question. files created by the maintainer scripts in /etc but not shipped in the package at all do not have to be conffiles, but lintian won't know about those and thus will not warn you about them. > I didn't inspect such issue yet so I could not say much > but, at least, maintainers want/need to replace conffiles > if there are such substantial changes to them in version up, it is never ever acceptable for a maintainer to destroy the admin's config files. period. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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