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and subject line Re: Bug#607515: extlinux quietly overwrites conffile
has caused the Debian Bug report #607515,
regarding extlinux quietly overwrites conffile
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Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.02+dfsg-7
Severity: serious
Tags: squeeze
extlinux-update script quietly overwrites /etc/default/extlinux file
on each invocation. The file in question, according to the Policy,
is a configuration file, so the local changes made to this file should
be preserved. I think handling of this file should be done differently:
only create this file if not already exist, and not update it after.
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On 12/19/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
extlinux-update script quietly overwrites /etc/default/extlinux file
on each invocation. The file in question, according to the Policy,
is a configuration file, so the local changes made to this file should
be preserved.
while i agree that the handling of the update of the file could be
upgraded, user changes are preserved as the file is read in by
extlinux-update before writing it again, therefore closing the bug.
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