> Note, this patch will only affect new installations. Do we want to > modify existing installations? If we do, which ones? As the inittab > file by good reasons is not a conffile, such modification to existing > installations would have to be done carefully by the postinst script.
As far as I know, if the file is not a member of conffiles it will be replaced with a new one. It's not explicitly written in the main-guide [1], but I think it implies. Has I mistaken? If I hasn't then the file will be replaced on existing installations and we don't need the postinst script. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#conffiles
