Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 162120 wishlist > thanks > > justification: this is not a flaw in the policy, at best, this may be > a proposal to change policy to codifying, in my opinion, a less > desirable behaviour, and should be treated like any other proposal
> Sorry, this is a bug in those packages. dpkg has always had > the correct behavour of not reinstalling conffiles that are removed; > and so do packages managing configuration files using ucf. > > Policy, while documenting practice for the most part, should > not recommend or condone broken behavour just because packages are > broken. The example which came up on debian-devel was that if you delete /etc/inetd.conf, various things will recreate it. AJ insists that this is the right behavior; you think it's the wrong behavior. Hrm. I don't particularly care, but I do care that the packages and the policy should match.
