Re: policy violation and bug reports. - some resolution?

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

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On 24 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	There is no need for conffiles in /root; I'd be happy to
>  provide patches to the postinst if the maintainer feels unsure about
>  coding it.

I mostly agree. Current base-files_1.7.postinst now says:

#!/bin/sh

install_from_dpkg_dist() {
  if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
    echo "Installing $1 from $1.dpkg-dist ..."
    cp -p $1.dpkg-dist $1
  fi
}

install_from_dpkg_dist /root/.bash_profile
install_from_dpkg_dist /root/.bashrc

[...]

This is already "No fuss, no muss, no questions, no over write."
Does this violate any current policy?
Why should I include those files in the postinst?

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