Hallo, * Allison Ryan Lortie [Fri, Oct 23 2015, 06:47:03AM]: > hi, > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015, at 13:45, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > README.Debian tells you such details. Did you care to read it? > > No. Of course not. Did you expect me to?
PEBCAK detected... > > > Alternatively, this whole debconf indirection could be scrapped. I'm > > > not exactly sure what value it brings here anyway. > > > > And replaced with what exactly? Please tell me something new, which does > > not modify the conffile. > > Why do you install files in /etc at all if you expect the admin not to > modify them? > > If this is your goal, you should put them in /usr/share and update the No, this is not my goal. I allow the user to add configuration in the typical conf.d directory style. And I expect an expert admin to know how this thing works and others to go and RTFM. Or even start READING the file before hacking on it. It tells you in the first block: # NOTE: command line switches and other configuration files matching the same # file naming scheme (*.conf) can override values from this file. > -c option on the commandline to point to that location instead. Then > you could symlink from this /usr/share directory to a file or two in > /etc that I am actually allowed to modify. This is not an answer to my previous question, it's just the typical way to rellocate the playground. How do you integrate manual changing with debconf in a way that is not confusing someone? And no, saying "I don't need debconf so let's scrap this shit" is not a solution. > If I see something in /etc then I more or less assume that I'm allowed > to configure it. I'm willing to deal with the keep/replace questions > from dpkg when they come. There is no problem with that method. I's just probably not always the most sensible way. > Putting a file in /etc and then effectively ignoring its contents is > just weird... Doing so without even a warning that this is the case is > only going to cause people to assume that your package is buggy. See People not reading easily available information but knowing about reportbug... what a great mixture. The "fix" I have in mind is adding a more visible header: # THERE ARE OTHER CONFIG FILES THAT ALSO CHANGE THE VALUES YOU SEE HERE # GO CHECK THEM FIRST!!! Regards, Eduard.
