On 01/18/2012 06:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 05:30 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 01/17/2012 02:47 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> By the way, I have proposed to have TOOLSTACK to be configured by >> debconf, but Bastian rejected it because he thinks that I shouldn't be >> rewriting the /etc/default/xen file. > > It's not (just) Bastian but rather Debian policy that says you must not > do this, 10.7.3 in particular. > > Ian.
Overwriting the /etc/default/xen file did *NOT* overwrite a local change in the *value* stored in the file. It would have only overwrite things like comments, but keep the value written in the "TOOLSTACK" variable (well, only if it has one of the 3 valid values, but do we care keeping a broken value?). I believe doing this way is also Debian policy compliant, there's nothing in the policy that forces you to keep administrator's comments in a configuration file. If you think I'm wrong, let me know. Anyway, I am still waiting for comments on how you or Bastian want this to be done. I have nothing against grep and friends... Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
