Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file

To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>, Kevin Dalley <kevin@rahul.net>, 18118@bugs.debian.org
Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#18118: postgresql: postgresql modifies /etc/crontab rather than adding file
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:25:02 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980326232502.55642@kite>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 199803270720.HAA24969@linda.lfix.co.uk>; from Oliver Elphick on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 07:20:39AM +0000
References: <kevin@seti.org> <[🔎] 199803270720.HAA24969@linda.lfix.co.uk>

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> For a while, it did.  Nevertheless, it is a violation of policy to 
> modify /etc/crontab, which is why I have taken it out.

I think it's allowable to violate policy to if you have to, to clean up past
policy violations. If you do it right, it's as if the modification never
happened, after all.

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see shy jo

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