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Author More intelligent handling of config files (was: Best sources.list file?)
Anton Ertl

2007-06-06, 7:13 am

John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
>Anton Ertl writes:
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>This would require that Debian modify every one of thousands of config
>files with a myriad of formats and deal with wierdnesses such as LSB
>metadata comments.


I would suggest that this is not a requirement, but an option. If no
such metadata is present for a config file, then the current approach
is used. If it is present, the additional intelligence is used.

So the metadata could be added gradually, and selectively:

- For those config files that have changed since the last stable release.

- For those config files that users tend to change.

- For those config files that have a comment format that can be
described by our comment metadata.

- anton
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