Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Serafeim Zanikolas writes ("Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)"):
> Any local sysadmin changes must be done in inetd.conf, as always.
> 
> The choice of /usr/share/ follows from two of the requirements I
> have set from the beginning for DEP9 [0]:
> 
> - the standard configuration files of inetd and xinetd must remain the
>   authoritative files;
> - the solution must not change the way system administrators configure inetd
> 
> /usr/share/reconf-inetd fragments are not configuration files; they're just
> input to reconf-inetd. You can think of them as the file-based equivalent of
> command line arguments to update-inetd

OK, thanks for that explanation.

Ian.