From: Manoj Srivastava
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:36:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify wording in the section on the location of configuration files, closes: #170019
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f60e858ceb208120afcc21543ce5da75aff9862;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git
clarify wording in the section on the location of configuration files, closes: #170019
Author: joy
Date: 2003/02/16 00:07:45
clarify wording in the section on the location of configuration files, closes: #170019
git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-178
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 19081d2..e76951a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
offtopic stuff, too.
* When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
script should start it, closes: #60979.
+ * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
+ "should", closes: #170019.
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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index e8eb2f1..8b1cab2 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -6077,17 +6077,16 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
Location
Any configuration files created or used by your package
- must reside in /etc. If there are several you
- should consider creating a subdirectory of /etc
+ must reside in /etc. If there are several,
+ consider creating a subdirectory of /etc
named after your package.
If your package creates or uses configuration files
outside of /etc, and it is not feasible to modify
- the package to use the /etc, you should still put
- the files in /etc and create symbolic links to
- those files from the location that the package
- requires.
+ the package to use /etc directly, put the files
+ in /etc and create symbolic links to those files
+ from the location that the package requires.