Re: update-pam and update-nsswitch

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

    Petter> [Sam Hartman]
    >> That said, Debian policy forbids one package from touching
    >> another package's configuration files without the permission of
    >> that other package.

    Petter> I thought it forbid one packages _maintainer scripts_ from
    Petter> touching another package's conffiles.  Looking in the
    Petter> policy, I find this:

conffiles are not the same as configuration files.

I'm mostly thinking about the sections of 10.7.4 that don't include
conffile in the text.