|--==> Steve Langasek writes: SL> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote: >>El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió: >>> It most certainly is a policy violation. A package is not allowed to edit >>> a conffile, *ever*.
>>I didn't know it :-S, sorry. Though looking at sysv-rc package I >>see /etc/init.d/rc is not classified as conffile. SL> Well, that means there's a bug in sysv-rc because it should be a conffile; SL> it also means that editing /etc/init.d/rc isn't going to work very well for SL> you, because the changes would simply be overwritten on each upgrade of SL> sysv-rc. If /etc/init.d/rc is a conffile, and it gets modify, I think dpkg should warn the user when a the sysv-rc package tries to replace it with a new version, isn't it? >>Anyway, I believe that it is better to not edit it, but how? Bootsplash >>needs to know the progress of the initscripts execution. SL> Please try to coordinate with the sysv-rc maintainer to see if support for SL> this can be included in the sysv-rc package in a non-disruptive way. The patch is not very big, so I believe it should be possible to get it merged somehow. I'll check what can be done.. Ciao, Free
