Quoting Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-07-30 05:59:10 BST): > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores > > files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 > > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and > > obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your > > high scores files when upgrading the game). > > This is an error. *Nothing* outside of /etc should be a conffile. See > policy 11.7.2. In most cases I'm aware of the game knows how to create > the scorefile at runtime but YMMV.
I agree with your solution but not with the statement that nothing outside /etc may be a conffile. Policy 11.7.1 says, "*Almost* all conffiles are configuration files..." (my emphasis). Nothing outside /etc may be a config file, sure. But the distinction must be made between a config file and a conffile. See Policy 11.7.1 for elucidation. -- Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England
