[ProFTP] (New) Modules zu activate

Francesco P. Lovergine frankie at debian.org
Thu Sep 13 09:00:21 BST 2018


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 08:05:49AM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>In case of upgrades the config files are never replaced, if already
>present, which does not make sense to me.
>Why don't we install the config files into etc from the beginning and
>leave the handling of them to the normal Debian mechanisms?
>

The obvious reason is allowing a pre-editing of the existing file just to
fix minor chages due from time to time which could be managed in automatic 
way. The 'normal' configuration handling leaves also those minor changes to
the maintainer. Or - which is the same - we should 'simply' provide a template
for configuration files and ignore any other things. The other approach is 
more flexible. E.g. in the past some options changed simply names and could
be NOT present in the template but present in the maintainer script. The 
current approach does allow to fix those silly changes without bothering
the poor maintainers. Makes sense?

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Francesco P. Lovergine



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