On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:25:22AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Upon rechecking Debian Policy, I realized that this behavior represents > a violation of Debian Policy 10.7.3 > <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3>. A > package must not ship configuration files in the package as conffiles > and then modify them in maintainer scripts.
I see. That's a pity, I would have liked to allow users to use debconf, but still be able to edit the files by hand in the place where they expect them (/etc). Policy does not seem to allow this. > Thus, please stop shipping the file in the pioneers-console package, and > instead have the maintainer scripts create the file. > > Alternatively, since the init script has very sane defaults, you might > consider just shipping the configuration file with commented-out > defaults and removing the debconf questions entirely. I'll think about which solution I like better. Thanks for reporting the feedback, Bas Wijnen -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl/e-mail.html
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