Hi,
Maybe now that Ian is active again he would provide us with an
annotated interpretation of the conffile/Configuration file
confusion?
manoj
who thinks that both sides of this debate have made all the points
before; we really need an arbitration.
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> You are mistaken. In the message archived at the URL
>> <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9802/msg00353.html>
>> Christian states:
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________________
Manoj> why are all conffiles also not configuration files?
Christian> I guess they are (or at least, should be :).
Manoj> Why are conffiles not a proper subset of configuration files?
Christian> I think they are.
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> It has always been my understanding that a conffile was a special
>> class file with respect to dpkg and nothing more. It has special
>> rules for replacement, but every time I asked Ian J. I was told
>> that a conffile was not the same thing as a config file.
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