On Mi, 29 ian 20, 08:41:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 08:48:56AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > It seems to me you are conflating dpkg conffiles[1] with files in /etc. > > > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html > > Yep, but this [2] /strongly/ suggests that conffiles are exactly those > living under /etc.
It's a default in the most common packaging tool that saves work for many maintainers (they don't need to explicitly mark files under /etc as conffiles). To me it's quite clear that conffiles are typically in /etc (the text explicitly allows for other possibilities), but not every (configuration) file in /etc is a conffile. > Cheers > [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#conffiles The 3rd paragraph explicitly recommends *not* marking files as conffiles if they must be changed through other mechanisms (I believe cups does this, but am too lazy to check). It then goes on about how to deal with having a configuration file (not conffile) in /etc that is not managed by dpkg. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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