Re: testing migration
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:51:34 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Any package in debian that, during installation or upgrade, loses
> changes you have locally made to a config file is broken. A bug report
> of severity serious should be filed on it for its violation of debian
> policy, section 11.7.3:
>
> Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
> * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and
> * configuration files must be preserved when the package is
> removed, and only deleted when the package is purged.
Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" can
both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) and
"remain active", which is what I think should happen.
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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