On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > > 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) > > No it isn't. They are being treated as "configuration files".
Nothing in doc/ can be tagged as configuration files, as far as I know. > Please read that section again. Did you? 13.3 isn't the config file policy, it's the /usr/share/doc policy. I interpret the last paragraph as forbidding what he was saying, provided a postinst script qualifies as "any program".
