* Thomas Hood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it isn't. > > If it's shared then the packages involved know this > > Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't "know" > that there is not some other package, bar, which Depends > on foo and uses /etc/foo.conf . That's the problem. See > #108587 for additional discussion.
The maintainer should really know. The maintainer is more likely to
know than the user in many cases. I think it would be worthwhile for
policy to be modified to require notification when a sharing of this
kind happens. I know that I'd expect someone to tell me if they're
using a conffile from my package.
Stephen
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