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Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?



On 2017-05-01.13:02, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2017 11:09:26 +0200, Christian Seiler
> <christian@iwakd.de> wrote:
> >And as I said in other places in this thread: I personally
> >think that the separate /usr <-> /etc scheme is much better
> >than just storing everything in /etc, so I would really
> >prefer if as much software as possible would switch to that,
> 
> How would you expect the case "local admin has copied over the file
> from /usr to /etc to apply local changes, and a new package version
> changes its defaults so that the service wouldn't run with an
> unadapted configuration any more" to be handled?

Via a NEWS entry? I'd expect _any_ significant change in default
behaviour in a package to be announced in a NEWS entry.

-- 
Regards,
Scott.

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