From: Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moving conffiles Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:50:58 -0500
> The dictd package has only used one conffile, /etc/dictd.conf. > Enhancements in the new upstream version make it desirable to add > several more conffiles, so policy recommends using a subdirectory of > /etc for the package's conffiles. > > Is it legal to create /etc/dictd/ and move /etc/dictd.conf to > that subdirectory in the preinst? If so, should I have debconf > notify the user that the conffile has been moved? You are lucky enough if you could use old dictd.conf with the new dictd too only by moving its location. For a configuration file which is very deeply system related and sufficiently stable, it might be possible to satify the current policy on configuration files but I suspect there are many cases where an enhancement of an upstream completely changes configuration files (format, filename, etc.), especially in user application programs and it is very difficult to satisfy the current policy. I feel that the current policy prevents sane advance of packages. At least I have an impression that policy condition on configuration files should be splitted into ones which are system relevant and must (and could) preserve user's modifications strictly and others which admit more flexible treatment. Of course there might be more good, reasonable way of splitting. Best regards, 2003-1-17(Fri) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
