On May 11, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote: > > Wrong: since you have to copy the whole file to override it, and files > > in /lib have no conffiles handling, after an upgrade you will not know > > what was changed by you and what was changed upstream. > I think everyone here agrees with that. The interesting case is when > files in /etc/ can either explicitly include the /lib file, or > implicitly override the /lib settings. I do not know about any package which work this way, but there is any then the problem is not different from packages which support multiple configuration file fragments in /etc, ship the default configuration in /etc and allow it to be modified by other configuration fragments in /etc (e.g. Apache).
-- ciao, Marco
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