Bug#780797: openssh-server: modifies the user configuration
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 07:18:38PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 16:31 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > What did the file look like before this upgrade?
> He probably had the Debian default which was then auto-migrated?
Please read the original report in which Vincent explicitly said that he
had made local changes to that file.
> In general I think that old systems *SHOULD* actually be kept up to date
> and that it's good to have them migrated.
> AFAICS, LC_CHARMAP is not standardised (or at least I couldn't find
> where), so we shouldn't add it.
>
> BUT,... since this changes the (Debian) defaults, it should have
> - gotten a NEWS.Debian entry
Perhaps.
> and/or
> - the migration been managed via e.g. debconf (and the user been
> interactively asked)
Absolutely not. This is not a reasonable question to ask most users and
I'm not going to waste debconf energy on it.
Frankly, if the change you requested continues to cause trouble like
this, I'm more likely to simply revert it, as it is not worth the time.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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