Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Mon Apr 22 19:57:48 BST 2019


On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 02:35 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html :
> "Note that a package should not **modify** a dpkg-handled conffile in
> its
> maintainer scripts. Doing this will lead to dpkg giving the user
> confusing and possibly dangerous options for conffile update when the
> package is upgraded."
> 
> > > $ stat /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> > > Modify: 2019-04-18 01:32:53.473019451 +0800 <------------THIS
> 
> Modified!

update-exim4.conf.conf isn't a conffile, so Policy's statements on
conffiles do not apply to it (it can't be, since the file isn't shipped
by a package).

Regards,

Adam



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