Bug#403391: debian-policy: scripts as configuration files: should vs. must

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.1
Severity: normal

Current policy says:

,---- 10.7.1 Definitions
| Note that a script that embeds configuration information (such as most
| of the files in /etc/default and /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}) is
| de-facto a configuration file and should be treated as such.
`----

However, I think here the "should" should be a "must", even if we
disregard the requirement that policy should mirror etch_rc_policy.txt.
If we take that text as normative, it's "must", anyway.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

-- no debconf information

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)