T o n g wrote: > but that setting was overwritten by new smart updates. Now I think it is > still OK, and I'll set it back. There are a few differing schools of thought about conffiles. One is to put as little as possible into them so that they never change in the package and then the user never need to merge changes. Whatever the user has, sticks. But then some other users object that they want lots of commented examples that they can just uncomment and so other maintainers go the other way packaging a file with loads of comments. The problem there is that when the comments change it means a conffile update even though no actual content changed. I find this latter problem annoying. I now just suffer through changes like those, like the recent one to schroot with comment only changes to the schroot.conf file, that required me to merge my local configuration into it. I could refuse the update since there was no actual content change but then my copy of the file would diverge more and more over time. So I just force myself through it every time now. Sigh. Bob
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