Re: Clarification of Policy and Packaging manuals requested
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
> In my opinion, I would ask for conffiles to be exactly the set
> of configuration files, plus exceptions decided by consensus no the
> mailing lists
That's a bit much. I agree that conffiles are a proper subset of
configuration files, but many configuration files are handled in
postinsts or by specialized scripts. They are not conffiles as they
are not handled by dpkg's conffile mechanism.
Guy
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