[ubuntu/karmic] base-files 5.0.0ubuntu3 (Accepted)

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dustin Kirkland<kirkland at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Martin Pitt<martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hello Dustin,
>>
>> Dustin Kirkland [2009-07-08 22:05 -0000]:
>>> base-files (5.0.0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low
>>>
>>>   * etc/motd, etc/legal.sh, debian/rules, share/motd.md5sums: pursuant to
>>>     consultation with Canonical's Legal Department, it is sufficient
>>>     to display the warranty disclaimer only once per user; move this
>>>     text out of the stock /etc/motd, and into an /etc/profile.d/legal.sh
>>>     script; display the text if a certain flag is not detected and touch
>>>     the flag file
>>
>> Thanks for doing this!
>>
>> +       touch "$HOME/.legal"
>>
>> One request, can we change this to ~/.cache/motd/legal-displayed ?
>>
>> ~/.legal sounds way too generic, and it really belongs into ~/.cache/.

One followup, Martin...

Is /etc/legal (for the legal text) and /etc/profile.d/legal.sh (for
the script) too generic as well?

In my first version, I used /etc/ubuntu-legal and
/etc/profile.d/ubuntu-legal.sh, but I figured Debian (and others)
could potentially use this logic as well, replacing /etc/legal with
whatever their Nazgûl [1] require.

[1] http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl#Behind_the_Scenes

:-Dustin