On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:05:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:16:38PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > We currently don't provide any control over dotfiles found in > > > user home directories, and we leave any conflicts as they happen. > > > I'd like some kind of scripting system. > > > > i dont think we should. shouldnt it really be the responsibility of > > upstream to provide the ability to transition from version to another? > > In all other things, it's our de facto responsibility to fix up mistakes > or omissions by upstreams when they affect our users. Why not in > configuration files too? it just seems like upstream would want to support users who are transistioning from older versions of the software. i think a better policy, rather than something debian specific, would be for debian devels to work with upstream to provide something that can benefit everyone. -- gram
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