[Touch-packages] [Bug 1929854] Re: Vital and critical configuration files get overridden by system updates without warning

2021-07-26 Thread Dominik Wezel
As to sshd_config: I will, when the case arises again. Unfortunately, I don't use sshd in my boxes on a regular basis and so often discover only changes that possibly happened a long time ago. I remember a nasty change from "PasswordAuthentication no" to "#PasswordAuthentication yes", but

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1929854] Re: Vital and critical configuration files get overridden by system updates without warning

2021-07-26 Thread Dominik Wezel
As to grub.cfg: I set GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 in my /etc/default/grub, but the timeout for efi was reset to 30 on every update. I didn't know that files in /etc/default/grub.d are supposed to be changed, but I now changed if [ \$grub_platform = efi ]; then

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1929854] Re: Vital and critical configuration files get overridden by system updates without warning

2021-06-02 Thread Dominik Wezel
Making changes to /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose was, at least for some time, the only way to make keyboard composition work in Ubuntu, as ~/.XCompose didn't work anymore, and creating a custom keyboard layout from scratch was not an option (my XCompose contains key compositions for

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1929854] Re: Vital and critical configuration files get overridden by system updates without warning

2021-05-31 Thread Dominik Wezel
Hi Paride Thanks for your feedback. I'm a bit confused and concerned that a critical behaviour like this has to be addressed on package level and is not part of aptitude, but so be it. I will file individual bug reports against the affected packages when a configuration file is next overridden