conffile changes in SRUs

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:11:24PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> except that you are not allowed to touch a conffile from maintainer
> scripts in any case (policy 10.7.3).

Well, the spirit underlying that policy requirement is that users not be
shown aggravating prompts on upgrade asking them what to do with a config
file they haven't touched.  In some cases, it's appropriate to edit a
conffile from a maintainer script to undo damage to it that was done by some
other part of the system. :)

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