On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 08:48:56AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 28 ian 20, 09:59:44, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:54:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > > As that package apparently is required for the Mate desktop, it's > > > likely that to resolve this that you'll need to comment the lines in > > > that file as root and note that package upgrades may overwrite your > > > commented file with the one supplied with the package. > > > > This would be a Debian policy violation. /etc is taboo, sysadmin > > overrides (you get asked at upgrade, though, so some vigilance is > > in order). > > It seems to me you are conflating dpkg conffiles[1] with files in /etc. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html Yep, but this [2] /strongly/ suggests that conffiles are exactly those living under /etc. Cheers [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#conffiles -- tomás
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