Just to throw a real situation at this, I'm packaging SOCKSv5 stuff. Both the client and server packages use some configuration files in /etc. The situation is this:
I can't provide default ones that work since everyones network is different (I can provide example ones with the lines commented out though!) So I decided that I could provide default ones and only create them *if* they didn't exist. The files would then be removed on a purge. Basically, treat these files as high-score files. There is one drawback with this - dpkg only removes backup versions of conffiles, so that there will probably be /etc/libsocks5.conf~ files left behind. The benefit is that the user is never asked about the conffiles (keep it Y/N/...). Thoughts? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
