On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:15:57 +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > Hello there. > > I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451 > > I thing this violate 10.7.4 > > "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package, > including the one the scripts belong to." > /etc/hosts is not a conffile, so it doesn't violate that part.
However, the squeeze RC policy says [1]
Packages must not modify other packages' configuration files
except by an agreed upon APIs (eg, a /usr/sbin/update-foo command).
which might well apply.
[1] http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt
Cheers,
Julien
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