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

[Roger Leigh]

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?


Regards,
Roger

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