On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > > > > In the current crafty (17.13-3) these files are conffiles (look in
> > > > > debian/conffiles or debian/crafty.conffiles), which means that they
> > > > > will only
> > > > > overwrite the existing versions if they have not been modified or the
> > > > > user
> > > > > requests it.
> > > >
> > > > and the user would be insane to request it... perhaps you should install
> > > > them to doc/crafty/examples, and use postinst to check if they should be
> > > > upgraded? if so, mv them to the proper location in /var.
> > > >
> > > > same thing is done for ppp's provider peer/chatscript files.
> > >
> > > But that's a policy violation (13.3)
> >
> > What ppp does with /etc/{ppp/peers,chatscripts}/provider is not a policy
> > violation.
>
> Maybe you misunderstood what I was referring to... of course changing or
> messing with them isn't, but generating/installing them from e.g.
> /usr/share/doc/foo/examples is a violation, according to 13.3.
It does not violate 13.3 because at the time the package is newly installed,
/usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/* exists.
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