Re: RFS: checkinstall

[Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>]

At 1144430645 past the epoch, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:52 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > I think that Frank meant to say that if the
> > documentation mentions some place for configuration
> > files, then you should change that part of the
> > documentation instead of providing a separate file.
> I don't think so. AFAIK the package should modify the
> original files as little as possible.

Well, yes, a lean diff.gz is a good thing: however if the
package says "I put foo in /bar/baz" and the debian package
puts it somewhere completely different, it doesn't make
sense for the debian users to be faced with the wrong
information.

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Jon Dowland
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