[ Please don't Cc:me, I will read your input in the list ] Hi.
In bug #23255, Nicolás Lichtmaier reports that /etc/adjtime should probably not be a "conffile" (i.e. a configuration file managed by dpkg through the conffile mechanism), and he cites policy to support this. However, since the default /etc/adjtime in the package does never change, its md5sum does never change, and it is of no real harm, really, dpkg will never ask about keeping the old version or installing the new one. Please note that /etc/timezone is very similar to this, it is a conffile, it should probably not be a conffile according to policy, but being a conffile is harmless. Therefore I'm in doubt about the right thing to do. I'm willing to stop making it a conffile and creating it on the fly if it does not exist, but I would not like to hear any complaint like "/etc/adjtime is not listed anywhere, it should perhaps be an `extrafile', since we don't have extrafiles yet, it would be nice to have it as a conffile". So: Should I make /etc/adjtime not a conffile? Should /etc/timezone not be a conffile, also? Thanks. -- "4c1c8d291ee452495ab491dc9833f580" (a truly random sig)
