On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:02:50AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > I stomped across > <http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tfile-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile.html> > It seems several packages fail to declare conffiles as such, which is > a serious policy violation given that user change will not be preserved > across upgrades. > Someone with more time than I have currently should probably check them. > A cursory look give as 'worst offender': > gdm: /etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf > gnocatan-meta-server: /etc/init.d/gnocatan-meta-server > pimd: /etc/pimd.conf > ratmenu: /etc/menu-methods/ratmenu > vsftpd: /etc/ftpusers /etc/init.d/vsftpd > wdm: /etc/logrotate.d/wdm > Sorry for any false positive. > Comments about how a non-conffile-to-conffile migration should be implement > welcome. If you mean to try to preserve existing changes to these files on upgrade, that would require a bit of nasty preinst hacking. Trivially, though, getting the files marked as conffiles in the *current* version of the packages is far better for our users going forward. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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