Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-12-28 21:03:57 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: >> This is I think a question of interpretation; >> if the local change modifies the way the package works in any way, then >> I agree; but a comment?! Where does it end? Do you want upgrades to >> preserve the mtime of the configuration file as well? How about the >> filesize, if that was changed locally? > > A comment can contain valuable information. For instance, the admin > could add a note about why he set some value.
Indeed. However, this information is still available in the backup file. > IMHO, comments should > be preserved, Often this is possible using sed on the configuration file. > If really you can't preserve the comments, it must be said at the > beginning of the configuration file. That would also be a good idea. In summary, I think that wwwoffle's handling of wwwoffle.conf is suboptimal, but I don't see how this is release-critical. The wording of Policy and etch_rc_policy.txt is unclear about this, I think, but I would downgrade this bug to important. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
