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



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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:

> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > 	Compared to that, the default files are puerile. It is
> >  annoying to have little control over my home directory as root, and
> >  b) have to delete those files over and over again since they mess up
> >     ls -asCF output. 
> 
> If they were conffiles, you could delete them once and never see them again
> (dpkg doesn't replace deleted conffiles ever).

You are right, but having a .bash_profile.dpkg-dist.dpkg-dist
would be too much :-)

Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed conffiles)
and I don't think it is right to make a program to "benefit" from
bugs in other programs...

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