Hi Santiago, readding 619244 for future reference as you nicely explained /etc/machine-id here and I've referenced that bug in debian/changelog...
On Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Sorry for that. I almost Cc you, but I was not really sure about what
> kind of "overrides" does piuparts have in place, or whether you would
> be willing to make an exception in this case.
piuparts has quite some, look in /usr/sbin/piuparts for self.ignored_files and
self.ignored_patterns, there are (somewhat sadly) 125 and 35 of these...
> This file, /etc/machine-id, could be described as
>
> * A system file
> * which is handled by a package which is not essential now
> * but will be essential de-facto in jessie (if not just essential)
> * but it will not be essential de-facto in every architecture.
Ack.
> Odd properties would make it a good candidate for base-files, and even
> properties would not, so, I'm glad that you decided to make a piuparts
> exception for such kind of files.
:)
> Thanks a lot.
Likewise! :)
cheers,
Holger
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