Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Package: base-files >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Hi >> >> Automatically changing etc/issue is not policy compliant for the moment >> as one needs to edit a conffile. >> >> A solution might be to create etc/issue in the maintainerscripts so it's >> no conffile anymore... > > I don't quite understand what you want to achieve here.
When installing a Custom Debian Distribution I want to have etc/issue mention the name of it... > Files in /etc *are* to be changed, conffiles or not. Most if not all conffiles are files in /etc, so I don't understand what you're trying to argue here... > The file /usr/share/doc/base-files/FAQ explains why it is not feasible > for base-files to update /etc/issue automatically and accurately. In fact, > it is not possible for *any* package to update it accurately. It's explaining why there is something mentioned about testing/unstable, nothing about why it could not include anything else... > For example, I think it is pretty obvious that people will not reinstall > base-files every time they change /etc/apt/sources.list, so I don't see > the benefit of creating /etc/issue in the postinst, but if you think > the FAQ is not clear enough, I would be willing to improve it. I think this was in the assumption I wanted to have only testing or unstable and not both mentioned (actually I want to get rid of both and include the name of the CDD...)? Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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