Bug#40766: Rewrite of "configuration files" section
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:39:18PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 11-Jul-99, 19:58 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > 4.7.4. Sharing configuration files
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > Only packages that are tagged _conflicting_ with each other may
> > specify the same file as `conffile'.
> >
> > A package may not modify a conffile of another package.
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps this last line should be changed to indicate that:
> >
> > * the maintainer scripts should not alter the conffile of ANY package,
> > including the one the scripts belong to.
>
> Covered by the second paragraph of 4.7.3, but no problem with
> re-emphasizing here.
I thought that it might imply, by omission, that modifying the conffiles
of its own package would be acceptable (although yes it is covered by
4.7.3).
> by deliberate, obvious request of the sysadmin. It's ok to have a
> special/specialized editor to modify a conffile, but it should never be
> run by anything except a human, and it should be obvious to that human
> that the conffile is being modified.
Agreed.
Hamish
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