On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Tony Houghton wrote: > I was wondering, why are init scripts installed as conffiles? Is > there a good reason other than that they're in /etc and nobody > bothered to make an exception in debhelper?
Anything that is in /etc should be editable by the admin, and changes respected. If that's not the case, then either it's a bug that the changes aren't respected, or it's a bug that the file is in /etc in the first place. Whether this is done by making the file a conffile or otherwise handling it manually is orthogonal. See Policy §10.7 et al. Don Armstrong -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110215205544.gj5...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
