[Adduser-devel] Bug#541620: Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:30:36AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > 
> > It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the  
> > package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)...
> > Why this?
> 
> the changelog states for adduser 3.29 (written some time in 2001):
> 
>   * /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as a conffile anymore. Instead, it
>     is moved to /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.conf and will
>     be copied in postinst if it does not exist already.
> 
> but it doesn't give any further explanation for it. 
> 
> Maybe we shoudl revert that decision...

In 2001, we only had dpkg's conffile handling, and we couldn't do any
editing of the config file in postinst if we shipped it in place in
the deb.  Now ucf exists, so it's probably a good idea to revisit the
maintainer scripts.

Cheers,
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