[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#648433: Handling of non-conffiles

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 21:19:15 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 06:07:21PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > One problem mentioned in a few bugreports is the handling of
> > > updates to /etc/default/rcS.  Because it's not a conffile, we
> > > don't provide updates to it.  While there are good reasons for
> > > this approach, I was thinking of ways of improving the situation.
> > > 
> > > While we don't want to lose any user customisation of this file,
> > > would it make sense to update the file to the latest version if
> > > it hasn't been modified?  We can do this quite simply: take the
> > 
> > Better check ucf, no reason to reinvent the wheel...
> 
> I've attached a patch to do this.  I haven't used ucf before, and
> didn't realise it was equivalent.  Is this OK with you?
> 
initscripts is priority required, ucf is standard.  I don't think this
wishlist bug is a good reason to make the Essential set larger.

Cheers,
Julien
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