Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org
>>>>> "John" == John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
John> Henning Makholm writes:
>> I maintain one package whose upstream author apparently thought that
>> $PATH would be a good place to look for a system-wide configuration
>> file. I changed that to look in /etc instead, which makes the
>> configuration mechanism in Debian substantially different from
>> upstream's.
John> I have made similar changes, but I also patched the documentation. Many
John> DDs do not do so, confusing users.
I consider that a bug.
If something like this is different, then not only should Debian
supplied documentation reflect the change, but a list of differences
should appear in README.Debian.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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