Marc, Thanks for this and apologies if the removal was premature or ill-conceived. My only intention was to identify and remove cruft and obsolete code (which was considerable elsewhere).
I am happy to reinstate ucf_helper_functions.sh. Does it need to be in doc examples? If you are advocating wider utility, perhaps /usr/share/ucf is better? If so, it would probably benefit from a section 5 manpage as well. Looking back at 49b8f19c7b95bd2a4d980a64259590cc68347af5, my only substantive concern is the testsuite requiring root and utilising the host statedir. It would be good to restore the testsuite, but are you able to devise something which utilises ucf --state-dir without requiring root and pollution of the host state? Apologies again. Mark
