Bug#780797: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 07:20:06PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On 03/22/2015 06:18 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > Well I don't really care that much, as said my intention was just to
> > improve defaults for others.
> >
> > But to be honest, and without intending to offend any of the
> > others,... it kinda seems to me that people make a mountain out of a
> > molehill.
>
> Christoph: there may be a lack of empathy in your response statements.
> Please try to "put yourself in the user's shoes" -- the issue looks
> very different from that perspective.
I entirely agree. Vincent is clearly a real person affected by this
change (I've seen things from them before where they were doing
interesting things with character map handling; they didn't just
suddenly pop up with a convenient fiction here!). Describing them as
part of a "loud minority" with an issue that "in reality probably didn't
even affect them" seems like an entirely unnecessary personal attack,
and I'd like to disassociate myself from that kind of approach to users.
> [ssh_config similarly.]
For the record, ssh_config is a dpkg-managed conffile - it doesn't have
the historical complications of sshd_config - and is not subject to the
problems being discussed here.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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