On Jan 7, 2004, at 06:33, Cameron Patrick wrote:
Could you avoid the debconf question and use a similar mechanism to what the current XFree packages do: generate the file from conf.d, unless itsmd5sum has changed from the generated version. That way you don't need to have a debconf question, and when someone edits their exim4.conf file, exim Does The Right Thing and doesn't scribble all over it.
That sounds like a really good idea. I believe (don't quote me!) that the XFree86 packages use ucf for this.