Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripsit Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> In the long run, the user-friendly solution is probably to offer (via >>> a debconf question that defaults to 'yes') to automatically rewrite >>> the conffile to take the change into account. > >> That can only be done if we change our policy with respect to maintainer >> scripts changing of conffiles; and that I would not want unless >> something like ucf does is integrated in dpkg. > > Do you mean that every package that offers to edit conffiles based on > debconf questions is policy-buggy?
Of course, see 10.7.3: ,---- | The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration | file a conffile. | [...] | The other way to do it is via the maintainer scripts. | [...] | | These two styles of configuration file handling must not be mixed, for | that way lies madness: dpkg will ask about overwriting the file every | time the package is upgraded. `---- Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
