On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> 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? Yes. Due to the current bug in sysv-rc (that /etc/init.d/rc is not a conffile), this will not happen at present. But even if it did, it's still a policy violation for any package to edit a conffile. > >>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.. Ok, good luck :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
