Bug#265387: marked as done (exim4-config: shouldn't /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf be a conffile?)
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Subject: exim4-config: shouldn't /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf be a conffile?
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Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.34-2
Severity: minor
Shouldn't
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
be listed by
$ dlocate -conf exim4-config ?
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Subject: Re: Bug#265387: exim4-config: shouldn't /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf be a conffile?
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On 2004-08-12 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.34-2
> Severity: minor
> Shouldn't
> /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> be listed by
> $ dlocate -conf exim4-config ?
No, as it is not managed by dpkg and not shipped in the debian
package.
Quoting policy
| 10.7.1 Definitions
|
| configuration file
| A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site- or
| host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the behavior of a
| program. Typically, configuration files are intended to be modified
| by the system administrator (if needed or desired) to conform to local
| policy or to provide more useful site-specific behavior.
|
| conffile
| A file listed in a package's conffiles file, and is treated specially
| by dpkg (see Details of configuration, Section 6.6).
|
| The distinction between these two is important; they are not
| interchangeable concepts. Almost all conffiles are configuration
| files, but many configuration files are not conffiles.
|
[...]
|
| 10.7.3 Behavior
|
| Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
|
| * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and
| * configuration files must be preserved when the package is
| removed, and only deleted when the package is purged.
|
| The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration
| file a conffile. This is appropriate only if it is possible to
| distribute a default version that will work for most installations,
| although some system administrators may choose to modify it. This
| implies that the default version will be part of the package
| distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts
| during installation (or at any other time).
|
| In order to ensure that local changes are preserved correctly, no
| package may contain or make hard links to conffiles.[55]
|
| The other way to do it is via the maintainer scripts. In this case,
| the configuration file must not be listed as a conffile and must not
| be part of the package distribution.
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