Bug#132621: debian-policy: /etc/init.d _must_ be conffiles (not should)
>>"Anthony" == Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
>> The fact that policy says that init.d scripts _should_ be
>> marked as a conffile, and later specifying that loca changes _must_
>> be preserved.
Anthony> Huh? Couldn't you preserve changes some other way? If we said _must_
Anthony> be marked a conffile, then policy would forbid that.
I guess the wording should be clarified to emphasize that the
init.d files _are_ configuration files, and they _must_ have local
changes preserved, either (if they are present in the .deb) by
marking them as conffiles or, if they do not exist in the .deb file,
by any other means.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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