On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > Am I missing something? > > Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide > which files Debian users may or may not edit. Policy says they can do as > they like, regardless if you like it or your packages care for their way, and > you are not allowed to overwrite their actions. > > Now, am I missing something?
Yes, lots. Only configuration files are protected as you say. Conffiles are automatically protected by dpkg, but not all configuration files are conffiles.
