On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 05:46:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > 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.
Ah, of course. I somehow thought that everything in /etc had to be a conffile. In fact, everything in /etc must be a configuration file (the FHS says so), and everything shipped there automatically is a conffile. > You have to copy the config file from a template in /usr/share/$package in > the package postinst. I'll do that. Thanks for the hint. Bas -- 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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