Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?
On Mon, 1 May 2017 21:16:33 +1000, Scott Leggett <scott@sl.id.au>
wrote:
>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.
While that would be ideal, being pointed to it by dpkg is automatic.
Greetings
Marc
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