Hello world, Policy section 10.3.2 (version 3.5.5.0), says, among other things:
[...] To ease the burden on the system administrator, such
configurable values should not be placed directly in the script.
Instead, they should be placed in a file in `/etc/default', which
typically will have thesame base name as the `init.d' script. This
extra file should be sourced by the script when the script runs. It
must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX `sh' format.
It should not be a `conffile', but a configuration file maintained by
the package maintainer scripts. See Section 11.7, `Configuration
files' for more details.
Why shouldn't files in /etc/default be conffiles?
Indeed, the original proposal of /etc/default (bug 66912), had a proposed
wording that included:
+ [...] Also, since
+ the `/etc/default/' file is often a conffile, the `init.d' script must
+ behave sensibly without failing if it is deleted.
Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a
footnote), or should it be reverted?
Cheers,
aj
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