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Bug#1091330: Clarify that only editable configuration files need be in /etc



On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 06:29:12PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Indeed, this isn't great text both for all the not-intended-to-be-edited
> stuff we have shipped there, plus the /usr-and-overrides thing more
> recently.  Thanks for the write-up.

... which by the way is not particularly recent, the layered override was
implemented for TeX in kpathsea in 1993.
I always considered to be the best scheme for handling upgrade, I am glad
to see it is more widely used.

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

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