Re: Policy and conffile editing
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:19:08PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 calvin@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
> > If you really think you want to change this automatically, you can ask the
> > squid maintainer to remove /etc/squid.conf from his conffiles.
>
> If it's necessary to remove it from conffiles in order to edit it from a
> script in /usr/sbin, then both sgml-base (/etc/sgml/transitional.cat
> edited by install-sgmlcatalog) and mime-support (/etc/mailcap edited by
> update-mime) violates this policy.
You're right. They should have bugs filed against them. Because
otherwise, every time the package is upgraded, the sysadmin will be
asked to check the changes unnecessarily.
Julian
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