I'm proposing that we change our de-facto policy for handling of files in /etc/udev/rules.d. Currently it is this (from udev's README.Debian): Packages should NEVER create files in /etc/udev/rules.d/, but create a symlink the first time the package is installed (and never try again, to allow the local system administrator to remove it). The intent is to let users disable a udev rule by removing the symlink, or reorder a rule to a different number by renaming the symlink. Putting a rules conffile directly in /etc/udev/rules.d/ wouldn't allow for this, and as Marco says in #359614, this "may be useful. Or at least appeared to be useful when I designed this." My question is simply whether anyone actually finds this useful? See #359614 for further discussion, including a note that Ubuntu's debhelper has already switched to not using symlinks. This is what I plan to do unless a reason emerges not to. -- see shy jo
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