Re: Conffiles and Configuration files (again)

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philip Hands writes ("Re: Conffiles and Configuration files (again) "):
...
> Absolutely, If you _have_ to edit the file for the package to work, that's
> a bug.

I think it's impractical to make this a requirement.  Clearly it would
be good for packages not to require configuration by editing scripts,
but this is better than no package or no configuration, which are
often the alternatives given limited effort.

However, a script which the user may need to edit as a configuration
file should be in /etc and marked as a conffile.

If there is no sensible default version and the package instead does
things to the script in its maintainer scripts the script should not
be a conffile, but should instead be a configuration file handled by
scripts and sysadmin (and not dpkg).

Ian.


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