On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Oh well yes, bad example. We still have a lot of packages which modify > /etc/default/* with debconf. Portmap, sysstat, ... - and they are > supposed to be conffiles - [...] Why are they supposed to be conffiles? It's fine for them to be not. (Which is true, e.g., for portmap.) Kind regards Philipp Kern