Bug#21585: PROPOSED] /etc/init.d/<script> need not be a conf

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

>> 
>> This would take away the admins ability to make modifications to the
>> scripts. 
>> I would find this to be a bad thing.
> 
> Maybe the wording's slightly wrong then.  Maybe I should say
> "locally-modified scripts" rather than "user-modified scripts"?
> 
> I mean files such as /etc/init.d/xntp3 which are created in a
> customised way by the postinst when xntp3 is first installed.  Having
> it as a conffile would not work, because then every time the package
> is upgraded an unnecessary warning would be given.  Rather, the
> postinst checks to see whether the file already exists and creates it
> if it doesn't.  So no local modifications would be lost.
> 
> Does that make things clearer?
> 

I think that a smarter way of doing this would be better.  A user should be
able to edit things in /etc and be reasonably sure that the changes will not
disappear.