Package: debmake
Version: 3.5.15
Severity: normal
debmake is guilty of allowing, indeed, seeming to encourage packages
to modify the conffiles of other packages.
>From Policy v. 2.5.0.0:
Only packages that are tagged conflicting with each other may specify
the same file as conffile. A package may not modify a configuration
file of another package.
>From /usr/bin/debstd, line 299:
# etc files that could need some tweaking
for i in services inittab crontab protocols profile shells rpc shells \
syslog.conf conf.modules modules aliases \
X11/Xresources X11/config X11/window-managers X11/xinit ; do
if [ -f $3$i ]; then
FILEX="$i"
cat /usr/lib/deb-make/etc.first.postinst $3$i \
/usr/lib/deb-make/etc.last.postinst | addscript postinst
addscript postrm </usr/lib/deb-make/etc.postrm
>From /usr/lib/deb-make/etc.first.postinst
# etc file modification generated by debmake #DATE#
if ! grep -q '#-- #PACKAGE# begin' /etc/#FILE#; then
cat >>/etc/#FILE# <<EOF
#-- #PACKAGE# begin
This really should be a 'critical' bug, I think, but I'd hate to wreak
such havoc on slink release.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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- To: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>, debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: libmsgcat and sympa : my first packages
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:15:48 -0700
- Message-id: <19980805161548.C2299@kitenet.net>
- References: <19980803102404.B14841@hrnet.fr> <19980805185647.A356@hrnet.fr> <19980805143826.A19826@mgh.harvard.edu> <19980805235438.A1911@hrnet.fr>
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Why not, but why does debstd provide the possibilitry of modifying : > - /etc/aliases > - /etc/syslog.conf > - /etc/inetd.conf > - /etc/services > - /etc/inittab > - /etc/protocols > - /etc/profile > - /etc/modules > - /etc/X11/window-managers > - probably some others > > It seems to me unlogical since debstd should help the developers > to follow the Debian Policy... Should we consider that debstd is out of > date ? It was written before it was against policy to modify conffiles, and it is not being kept up to date with policy. If you want a policy complient debstd, install debhelper and use dh_debstd (or just use debhelper ;-). -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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