Daniel Leidert <dleidert@debian.org> writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 08.01.2020, 08:17 +0100 schrieb Philip Hands: > > [..] >> How about modifying the shipped /etc/default/spamassassin to include a >> comment explaining what's going on, and how to enable the timer instead? > > It seems I misread this part at first. Is it your suggestion to keep the > default behavior and explain how to enable the timer instead? My suggestion was simply that by modifying the file, one provokes a question on upgrade about whether the administrator wants their modified version (presumably modified to have CRON=1 set) or the new one from the maintainer (now with a nice comment about what's new, that should be enough to give the admin all the information they need). If a system has an unmodified file (so with CRON=0, among other things) then it gets quietly upgraded to the one with a comment, which might even turn out to be useful, when someone used to the old ways of doing things goes to set CRON=1 and gets the chance to learn something new. I don't really care what that comment says, as that's up to the maintainer of the package, and how they intend to deal with this in the future, but I'm really not a fan adding unnecessary questions to debconf. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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