Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file > will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator > has left in place your default configuration system.
Of course the maintainer should know their package. If the binary reads a configuration file in /usr/share/bla, and in the old version there was a symlink from /usr/share/bla/bla.conf to /etc/bla/bla.conf, but now the file is generated from files in /etc/bla/conf.d, sits in /var/lib/bla, and the symlink points there, it's safe to assume that /etc/bla/bla.conf is unused. > [Likewise for > failure modes on the presence of an obsolete configuration file; > unless you know for certain that it will fail, you should give the > administrator some way to override your guess.] In some cases, yes. We have cases in teTeX where there are only two alternatives: Either accept the change, or not install the debianized package at all and go for /usr/local/ instead. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
