Bug#162120: Support #162120
On 08 Jul 2003 21:32:26 +0200, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> said:
> But we are getting ahead of ourselves. First let us decide to
> recognize in policy that some packages do recreate configuration
> files, so that _currently_ it is a bad idea for the admin to delete
> a configuration file and assume that it will stay deleted.
Policy does not need to document every single potential
behaviour of packages.
The issue under discussion is whether all this comes under
preserving user changes as far as program configuration goes. In some
sense, echo '' > /etc/filename, and rm -f /etc/filename, both
represent a user change to a configuration file. Is it reasonable to
distinguish between these changes? Why would you think so?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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