Re: Conffiles and Configuration files (again)
Just to throw a real situation at this, I'm packaging SOCKSv5 stuff.
Both the client and server packages use some configuration files in /etc.
The situation is this:
I can't provide default ones that work since everyones network is different
(I can provide example ones with the lines commented out though!)
So I decided that I could provide default ones and only create them *if*
they didn't exist. The files would then be removed on a purge. Basically,
treat these files as high-score files.
There is one drawback with this - dpkg only removes backup versions of
conffiles, so that there will probably be /etc/libsocks5.conf~ files left
behind. The benefit is that the user is never asked about the conffiles
(keep it Y/N/...).
Thoughts?
Adrian
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