Re: Bug#29770: Policy contradicts itself about /etc/aliases
On 28-Nov-98, 16:26 (CST), Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> wrote:
> If two or more packages use the same configuration file, one of these
> packages has to be defined as _owner_ of the configuration file, i.e.,
> it has to list the file as `conffile' and has to provide a program
> that modifies the configuration file.
>
> The other packages have to depend on the _owner_ package and use that
> program to update the configuration file.
This is *still* in the Policy Manual? I thought we (readers of
debian-policy) agreed that it should be changed, a long time ago. I
guess it fell into the crack between policy maintainer policies.
I'll submit a bug to get this changed.
Steve Greenland
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