Bug#195406: /usr/share/epiphany-browser/default-prefs.js smells of config file: not going to fix

Marcelo E. Magallon "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>, 195406@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:18:25 -0600


 > I've decided against doing anything more on this bug.  Just because
 > part of a program is plain text, it doesn't mean it's a conffile.
 > For instance, most Python packages probably have settings in their
 > code a user _could_ want to tweak.
 > 
 > As far as I'm concerned, modification of the
 > /usr/share/epiphany-browser/default-prefs.js file is actually
 > creating a derived work of Epiphany rather than configuring it.  
 > 
 > Thanks for your reports and continuing interest.

 It's ok.  Most of Epiphany's weirdness can be "fixed" now with
 extensions.

 Any chance of seeing the extensions thing packaged for Debian by you?
 I think it's better if you do it since the two things seem to be rather
 closely related.

 Thanks,

 Marcelo