Re: Clarification of Policy and Packaging manuals requested
Hi,
>>"Guy" == Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:
Guy> 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
Guy> That's a bit much. I agree that conffiles are a proper subset of
Guy> configuration files, but many configuration files are handled in
Guy> postinsts or by specialized scripts. They are not conffiles as
Guy> they are not handled by dpkg's conffile mechanism.
Ok, I like that.
manoj
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