On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:15:13PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sam Hartman] > > That said, Debian policy forbids one package from touching another > > package's configuration files without the permission of that other > > package. > I thought it forbid one packages _maintainer scripts_ from touching > another package's conffiles. Looking in the policy, I find this: > 10.7.4 Sharing configuration files > Packages which specify the same file as a conffile must be tagged as > conflicting with each other. (This is an instance of the general > rule about not sharing files. Note that neither alternatives nor > diversions are likely to be appropriate in this case; in particular, > dpkg does not handle diverted conffiles well.) > Is this the rule you are refering to? It seem to allow one package to > include scripts updating another packages conffiles as long as these > scripts are not called from the maintainer scripts. That's correct, but I think any design for ease of management of PAM configs should have as a goal integration with the packaging system -- which obviously means cooperating with the maintainer of the package which owns the config files that need to be touched. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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