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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:31:48PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:On 20.08.2012 07:14, Andreas Tille wrote: >Please unblock package sendfile >>The RC bug #668721 was fixed in NMU and the package should migrate to>testing. Am I reading the maintainer scripts correctly in that they modify (or at least attempt to modify) several files not shipped by the package, including /etc/services and /etc/csh.login, both of which are conffiles?
On 20.08.2012 14:02, Andreas Tille wrote:
I admit that I basically applied the patch in the bug report and did notthought about this issue specifically but my (re)reading exactly fits yours. I guess we agree that this is a policy violation (not only in the package in question but also in previous versions).
Yep. :-( At least for the /etc/services case, it looks like the desired change is already in the default file in squeeze, so the code could likely be removed with no ill effect.
Regards, Adam