Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Michael Biebl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Hi Peter, >> >> please keep in mind, that /etc/uswsusp.conf is not a conffile but >> generated by the maintainer scripts. >> Only upgrades to locally modified conffiles are forbidden by the Debian >> policy. (I thus don't consider this bug severity serious, but let it Tim >> to decide). >> >> The primary interface for configuring /etc/uswsusp.conf seems to be the >> debconf interface. So I was wondering if you manually editied >> "resume device" in /etc/uswsusp.conf, so the debconf values where not in >> sync anymore. > > > That's debatable, indeed. Maintainers scripts should take care to cope > with locally changed settings when they use debconf to set some of > them. > > And, sure, that makes maintainer scripts pretty tricky to fine-tune.
I generally use ucf/ucfr to manage generated config files [1]. Would probably be a good idea for uswsusp, too, as ucf can notice local modifications. Alternatively, /etc/uswsusp.conf should have a bit, fat warning, that this file is autogenerated and local changes are not preserved. Michael [1] E.g. in rsyslog-mysql or rsyslog-pgsql -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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