On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed this bug is keeping 1.0.x from entering testing. :-( > > So which part of the policy is violated by this behaviour? "Don't > touch, maintainer scripts will do it" files aren't that rare in /etc,
Usually that's considered a bug. > and it shouldn't be hard to run dpkg-reconfigure once to set the new > port number. > > If this isn't really a policy violation, I'd rather reduce the bug > severity a bit and fix this in 1.1 packages. |10.7.3. Behavior |---------------- | | Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior: | * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and Also, debconf is not a registry. You may not use it to store configuration. If I change config files then the next dpkg-reconfigure is to honor the settings in the files. Also see point 3. of http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
