Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages
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On 30-05-2005 14:03, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>On 29-05-2005 21:43, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>>
>>>[Jonas Smedegaard]
>>>
>>>
>>>>It is a violation of Debian Policy to mess with conffiles of other
>>>>packages, and http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt section
>>>>3 adds this:
>
>
>>Also, config files seemingly not owned by a specific package (like
>>/etc/hosts.allow ) is edited as well. Don't know if that is fine to mess
>>with programmatically.
>
> Could someone comment on this? Its not clear to me what the policy is
> on thos configuration files which are not conffiles. It seems that
> there is meant to be an established mechanism for editting such files,
> (/usr/bin/update-foo) and therefore that an update such as:
>
> echo ALL: foo.bar.com >>/etc/hosts.allow
>
> would be disallowed by policy, but a (hypothetical) update such as:
>
> /usr/bin/update-hosts.allow ALLOW ALL FROM foo.bar.com
>
> would be acceptible (if allowing such connections was justified).
I agree with your conclusion. Debian Policy section 10.7.4 is about
"Sharing configuration files", and even though the first two paragraphs
discuss conffiles the remaining text (including the manipulation helper
tool you describe) is about configuration files in general.
- Jonas
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