Bug#162120: debian-policy: Deletion of configuration files--should it be preserved?
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> The example which came up on debian-devel was that if you delete
Thomas> /etc/inetd.conf, various things will recreate it.
Bug. Preserving user changes is a invariant we would like to
be able to advertize.
Thomas> AJ insists that this is the right behavior; you think it's
Thomas> the wrong behavior. Hrm. I don't particularly care, but I
Thomas> do care that the packages and the policy should match.
I fail to see a reason why we should over ride user changes
whener we, the maintairners, feel a capricious whimsy to doso, even
when we believe our way is the one true way, and the silly admin
ought to know better than to meddle in the affairs of his betters.
manoj
trying to counter some rhetoric on this report
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Random, n.: As in number, predictable. As in memory access,
unpredictable.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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