On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:56:23PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > A lot of maintainers don't mark the files there as confiles because they > > > don't expect them to be edited. If you want a second startup.d > > > directory outside of /etc for this purpose, change Emacs policy and > > > patch the added started code in all Emacsen. Then we can move our code > > > out. > > > > Files in /etc are to be marked conffiles. Period. End of story. Have a > > nice > > day. > > Or (XOR) preserved across upgrades by maintainer scripts, of course.
Yes, correct. I should have said that files in /etc are edittable config files. This means either using dpkg's conffile mechanism, or, easily broken maintainer script versions. I prefer the former. In any event, if emacs policy says the files go in /etc, then they must be edittable, as this is what Debian Policy stipulates. This means user edits must be preserved.
