On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:11:24PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > except that you are not allowed to touch a conffile from maintainer > scripts in any case (policy 10.7.3).
Well, the spirit underlying that policy requirement is that users not be shown aggravating prompts on upgrade asking them what to do with a config file they haven't touched. In some cases, it's appropriate to edit a conffile from a maintainer script to undo damage to it that was done by some other part of the system. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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