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Bug#941198: In support of mandatory unit files



On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 12:59:25PM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
> > In any case, this is an upstream choice, not a packaging choice, so we
> > have to use what upstream provide.
>
> Just to be clear using /etc/default is not an upstream choice, it's a
> Debian convention. I know you probably didn't mean to imply that, but
> that's how it read to me.

The context is that some package are configured via setting some
environment variable or command line parameter instead of reading a
config file at start up, and this is precisely the situation when
/etc/default is used.

I argue that whether to use command line parameters or to read a config
file is an upstream choice.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 


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