[Jonas Smedegaard] > It is a violation of Debian Policy to mess with conffiles of other > packages, and http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt section > 3 adds this:
Debian policy section 10.7.4 (Sharing configuration files) reads: The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package, including the one the scripts belong to. The base-config scripts are not maintainer scripts, so the behaviour of debian-edu-config do not break the written policy. So the sarge RC policy "clarification" is clearly a more extended rule than the one in the current policy. The new "clarification" seem to forbid all scripts that can edit conffiles. Is this the correct interpretation? (And yes, I believe we need to find a better way to handle configuration in debian-edu, but while we wait, I see no better way to do it than the current mechanism. And I believe it is not breaking policy as it is written in the Debian Policy Manual today. It would be interesting to know which packages conffiles we affect, to have a work list of packages we need to make more configurable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
