On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > 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. Yes, it does. What it doesn't allow is to ship a file *as a conffile* and edit it with debconf. You have to copy the config file from a template in /usr/share/$package in the package postinst. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
