On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 09:32:29AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Bill wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 21:17 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0800, Bill wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Well, as you can see from below the file contains statements like > > > > "please do not modify the following line." > > > > > > Do you suppose maybe that every program that creates a configuration > > > file with comments like that should further identify itself and the > > > files from which it drew the data used to create the file? > > > > > > Would this be a useful system-wide convention? > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > Very useful. And not very difficult either. > > If a file should not be modified directly with an editor, it's only > > courteous to tell the administrator what tool to use and from there the > > man page should suffice for docs. > > It would simplify things greatly here for example if I knew what tool(s) > > were used to create the interfaces file in the first place! > > > > b. > > How should I go about bringing this to the attention of the Debian > developers? A wishlist bug against the Debian policy manual maybe? makes sense to me. A
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