Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist Currently, the discussion in Debian Policy of conffiles doesn't mention symlinks, although symlinks in /etc are mentioned elsewhere. Marking a symlink as a conffile currently doesn't work in dpkg (see Bug#421344), but is otherwise an arguably useful thing to do, and current dpkg behavior can discard changes to symlinks. This should probably be noted explicitly in Policy.
The section on conffiles also doesn't say anything explicit about directories. While it's probably obvious from the phrasing, it wouldn't hurt to say explicitly that directories should not be marked as conffiles. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
