Re: Policy and conffile editing
The 'edited by you or by a script line' which currently gets served up to
users is apparently not quite in line with policy. It would probably be
more appropriate to say somethine like 'The configuration file for this
package has been modified since the package was installed' or something
like that.
I have over time observed a number of cases where I have to say Yes
(install new version) for conf files I know I have never modified, either
directly of with a helper configuration script, but I didn't report them
as bugs because of the above message.
Britton Kerin
> 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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