On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 15:57, Daniel Gröber <d...@darkboxed.org> wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > I want to question whether removing these conffiles is a good idea at > > > all. I'm probably one of the few people that actually muck around in there > > > but it seems like this is going to break things for any users that do. > > > > As far as I understand dpkg's conffile machinery should recognize if > > you changed anything, and leave it in place. Upstream moved the > > default ones to /usr, so we just follow what they do. > > Right. Think of an admin having to adjust these config files though: > previously they could just `editor /etc/iproute2/rt_tables` and get on with > things. Now anyone needing to do that will have to do a doubletake, figure > out why /etc/iproute2 is missing, realize that it's at /usr/lib/iproute2 > now, copy that over and finally edit. > > Is that friction really warrented to cater to a specialized niche use-case? > > Please consider overriding upstream's decision here.
Yes, it is warranted, both because it's exactly the correct behaviour for a package, and also because we are certainly not spending time and resources to go against upstream choices, especially when they are the right choices.
