Re: Bug#150514: Uer maodifications _must_ bre preserved, even is a co-admin said otherwise a few releases ago
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:38:52PM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote:
> This is not what I read from your email, but I am happy to believe that this
> is what I should have read. Instead I read you wanted to support people
> who said "A" and then went about their business as if they had said "B"
> (which is difficult to support). I still stand by my comment that, no matter
> how busy people are, packages should not be blamed for admins making
> changes which
> do not follow the instructions for making changes supplied with the package.
If you're going to rely on people following instructions like this you
ought to at least place the instructions (or a reference to them) in the
file itself rather than rely on people having looked at documentation
elsewhere before looking at the file.
> this I refer to conf files I have never edited. Hmmmm, now I think about it
> these confs are probably in breach of Policy for changing themselves
> automatically and being conffiles... a package printinghelp in this
Yes, they are.
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