Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

[Ove Kaaven]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > > > In the current crafty (17.13-3) these files are conffiles (look in
> > > > debian/conffiles or debian/crafty.conffiles), which means that they will only
> > > > overwrite the existing versions if they have not been modified or the user
> > > > requests it.
> > > 
> > > and the user would be insane to request it... perhaps you should install
> > > them to doc/crafty/examples, and use postinst to check if they should be
> > > upgraded?  if so, mv them to the proper location in /var.
> > > 
> > > same thing is done for ppp's provider peer/chatscript files.
> > 
> > But that's a policy violation (13.3)
> 
> What ppp does with /etc/{ppp/peers,chatscripts}/provider is not a policy
> violation.

Maybe you misunderstood what I was referring to... of course changing or
messing with them isn't, but generating/installing them from e.g.
/usr/share/doc/foo/examples is a violation, according to 13.3.


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