Package: base-files Version: 6.7 Severity: wishlist I've upgraded various systems from lenny to squeeze, and on each such system, I've had to manually upgrade /etc/profile so that /etc/profile.d support worked. (I have some personal configuration packages that drop a file in /etc/profile.d.)
I'd greatly prefer if /etc/profile got automatically upgraded when I upgraded Debian, like almost every other configuration file in /etc. /usr/share/doc/base-files/README states that base-files intentionally doesn't make /etc/profile a conffile; however, /etc/profile doesn't seem fundamentally different than every other file in /etc, for which the usual conffile mechanism works fine. Most files in /etc represent defaults that the sysadmin can edit, and speaking as one such sysadmin, I appreciate configuration files getting automatically upgraded when I haven't edited them, and getting prompted to merge in my local changes (or not) when I have edited them. Now that /etc/profile.d exists, an admin that wants to avoid prompting can easily drop a file in /etc/profile.d and not edit /etc/profile at all. And for admins who do edit /etc/profile, it seems easy enough to just hit enter at the conffile prompt to avoid upgrading the local file. However, I'd like to have the option of upgrading the file, possibly merging in my local changes. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-1 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
