Hello world, Policy section 10.3.2 (version 3.5.5.0), says, among other things: [...] To ease the burden on the system administrator, such configurable values should not be placed directly in the script. Instead, they should be placed in a file in `/etc/default', which typically will have thesame base name as the `init.d' script. This extra file should be sourced by the script when the script runs. It must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX `sh' format. It should not be a `conffile', but a configuration file maintained by the package maintainer scripts. See Section 11.7, `Configuration files' for more details. Why shouldn't files in /etc/default be conffiles? Indeed, the original proposal of /etc/default (bug 66912), had a proposed wording that included: + [...] Also, since + the `/etc/default/' file is often a conffile, the `init.d' script must + behave sensibly without failing if it is deleted. Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a footnote), or should it be reverted? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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