Bug#40766: Rewrite of "configuration files" section

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > OK, almost there.  But one quickie:
> > 
> > The sentence:
> >   A package may not modify a conffile of another package.
> > was replaced by something better, but I'm not sure what the conclusion
> > was.  How about:
> >   The maintainer scripts of a package may not modify a conffile of
> >   _any_ package, including the one the scripts belong to.
> > as proposed by Hamish.
> 
> So we are planning on making debconf non-policy compliant?

What are you talking about? Debconf modifies no configuration files.

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