Hi Luca, On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > I want to question whether removing these conffiles is a good idea at > > all. I'm probably one of the few people that actually muck around in there > > but it seems like this is going to break things for any users that do. > > As far as I understand dpkg's conffile machinery should recognize if > you changed anything, and leave it in place. Upstream moved the > default ones to /usr, so we just follow what they do.
Right. Think of an admin having to adjust these config files though: previously they could just `editor /etc/iproute2/rt_tables` and get on with things. Now anyone needing to do that will have to do a doubletake, figure out why /etc/iproute2 is missing, realize that it's at /usr/lib/iproute2 now, copy that over and finally edit. Is that friction really warrented to cater to a specialized niche use-case? Please consider overriding upstream's decision here. --Daniel
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