John Hasler wrote:

> Henning Makholm writes:
>> I maintain one package whose upstream author apparently thought that
>> $PATH would be a good place to look for a system-wide configuration
>> file. I changed that to look in /etc instead, which makes the
>> configuration mechanism in Debian substantially different from
>> upstream's.
> 
> I have made similar changes, but I also patched the documentation.  Many
> DDs do not do so, confusing users.

Please consider filing bugs against the packages you know of where the
documentation hasn't been patched to match the config changes.

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