Re: mysteries of /etc/default/*

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

Sebastian Henschel <debian@kodeaffe.de> writes:

> in the last couple of months, i realized that more and more packages
> are using a file in /etc/default/ for the configuration of their
> init-scripts.
> i searched in debian-devel and debian-mentors, looked into the policy
> 10.7 and asked a maintainer of such a package, but did not find any
> rationale, discussion or something which explains this.
>
> can any one of you please help me here?

See Policy 9.3.2.  (Disclaimer: IANADD.)

Martin