Julian Gilbey wrote: > > minor semantics, yeah.. but only config files that are to be deleted then > > recreated, or renamed, (most of them ;) fall victim to this.. > > if only the _contents_ are changed then the link should be ok.. > > but is not in fact correct, as if you have conffile /etc/foo, hardlink > /var/pkg/foo, and an package upgrade upgrades the /etc/foo confile > (with the installers permission), then /var/pkg/foo ends up pointing > to /etc/foo.dpkg-old, which is not what we want.]
You are quite right.. I can only plead confusion over config files (the original wording) and conffiles, but that's a thoroughly lame excuse ;-) > This is one of the proposals which Ian reopened as being important; I > am strongly inclined to agree with him, and therefore second this > proposal, and will include it in the upcoming policy revision unless > anyone has any objections. In the absence of any reasoned explanation for why this should not happen, it (still) has my support too. best, Ron
