Josselin Mouette writes:
> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 18:27 +0100, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
>> If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration
>> files, then I would probably just have used Fedora or whatever.
>
> I am not seeking the opinion of other random developers - I’m
Josselin Mouette writes:
> On a different, although similar issue, how would a change of
> /etc/inittab in a maintainer script be regarded? (I’m considering it
> for gdm3 in wheezy.)
Policy indicates that if other packages should be able to modify
/etc/inittab, sysvinit should provide a script
Hi Joss,
what change do you have in mind for /etc/inittab?
cheers,
Holger
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Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 18:27 +0100, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
> If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration
> files, then I would probably just have used Fedora or whatever.
I am not seeking the opinion of other random developers - I’m sure there
are people who won’t ag
Josselin Mouette writes:
> On a different, although similar issue, how would a change
> of /etc/inittab in a maintainer script be regarded?
> (I’m considering it for gdm3 in wheezy.)
If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration
files, then I would probably just have u
Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 09:49 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package,
> > including the one the scripts belong to."
> >
> /etc/hosts is not a conffile, so it doesn't violate that part.
>
> However, the squeeze RC policy says [1]
>
TAGG> so for example samba
smb.conf isn't conffile, too,
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AGG> But maintainer disagrees with me arguing that preinst asks user, and
AGG> that's user who modify /etc/hosts (using preinst, eah).
This action is done only if user afrees.
There are a lot packages which do this.
Policy says:
The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of *any* package,
Russ Allbery writes:
> For reference for others reading this, the postinst of the relevant
> package follows. Note that it adds an unqualified hostname, potentially
> shadowing a system in the local domain, if the user agrees to update
> /etc/hosts. The debconf question is priority: high and de
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:15:57 +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451
>
> I thing this violate 10.7.4
>
> "The maintainer scripts must not alte
Alexander GQ Gerasiov writes:
> I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451
> I thing this violate 10.7.4
> "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package,
> including the one the scripts b
Hello there.
I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451
I thing this violate 10.7.4
"The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package,
including the one the scripts belong to."
But maintainer
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