Package: netbase Version: 4.28 Severity: serious I see that /etc/networks has been added to netbase as a conffile.
This is very very bad, as policy says the conffile mechanism should only be used when there is a default which may be used by everybody. My /etc/networks was like this: localnet 158.49.16.0 and dpkg, while upgrading, suggests that I replace such file by this one: default 0.0.0.0 loopback 127.0.0.0 link-local 169.254.0.0 The requirement that this is a file which may be used by everybody clearly fails. There is also a conflict of interest with debian-installer, who created this file. I tag this as serious as I consider it to be a big step backwards compared to 4.27 (but you are free to disagree, as you are the maintainer). I strongly suggest that this change is undone for etch ASAP. Note: By reading #399293 I see with horror that I reassigned this bug from base-files to netbase. This was not an endorsement of the bug itself, it was just a "if this is going to be done at all, it should be done by netbase, not base-files", where the "if" was a very big "if". Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
