Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide
> which files Debian users may or may not edit. Policy says they can do as
> they like, regardless if you like it or your packages care for their way, and
> you are not allowed to overwrite their actions.
>
> Now, am I missing something?
Yes, lots.
Only configuration files are protected as you say. Conffiles are
automatically protected by dpkg, but not all configuration files are
conffiles.
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