[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Handling of non-conffiles

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

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...

> BTW, I started going through some of the open bugs and closing
> those fixed in current releases.  Would there be any objection
> to reviewing and closing bugs which are no longer reproducible
> and/or which are no longer relevant on current systems?

None from me.

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  Henrique Holschuh