Can a file that is not human readable (editable) be a conffile? gnome-libs-data declares /etc/mime-magic.dat (which is some kind of binary database generated from the textual conffile /etc/mime-magic) as such. The maintainer thinks this is correct -- I obviously don't. I'm bringing this up on -policy because I couldn't find explicit text about this in current policy. Maybe this should be clarified. My view is that stuff which the admin will (directly) edit should be a conffile. In this particular case, mime-magic.dat shouldn't be in the package at all, but rather (re)generated in the postinst. Just like the aliases databases of various mailers. -- Robbe
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