Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5] tools: Fix and improve make debball

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5] tools: Fix and improve make 
debball"):
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > If you don't object to the principle then I will test this and inspect
> > the .deb to make sure it has the desired contents.
> 
> There's a part of me that wonders whether it's a good idea to have
> everything in /etc considered a conf file; but I can see how that's a
> much more maintainable option going forward than having to keep and
> update a whitelist.

Of course the Debian policy isn't necessarily definitive here, but in
ordinary Debian packages it is definitely a bug for a file to be
shipped in /etc in the package filesystem archive but not declared a
conffile.

I definitely think we should either mark everything in /etc as a
conffile, or nothing at all.  Listing only a subset would be madness.

> Which then brings us to the question about whether a lot of the
> scripts and such should be in /etc at all; but perhaps that's a
> question for another time.

Indeed.

> Regarding the general intent:
> 
> Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Ian.

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