On 08-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > There has been some discussion lately on debian-deval (and a bit on > -policy) about init scripts. One concern that has arisen is that it can > be very annoying to have to modify an init script to change a simple > value in it, and then be forced to maintain your modified init script > each time you upgrade and the package changes it. /etc/default is > already in use by 3 packages (2 of them in base; also, see also bug >#66574 point #3), this just formalizes it. >
seconded
