Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 09:49 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > "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.
On a different, although similar issue, how would a change of /etc/inittab in a maintainer script be regarded? (I’m considering it for gdm3 in wheezy.) -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294762529.20609.11.ca...@meh