Files in /etc should be conffiles

[Jürgen Kreileder]

Binary package hint: ifupdown

None of the files installed under /etc are marked as configuration files. User customizations to those files get overwritten without warning when ifupdown is updated.

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| $ dpkg -L ifupdown | grep /etc
| /etc
| /etc/network
| /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
| /etc/network/if-up.d
| /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
| /etc/network/if-down.d
| /etc/network/if-down.d/upstart
| /etc/network/if-post-down.d
| /etc/init.d
| /etc/init
| /etc/init/network-interface-security.conf
| /etc/init/network-interface.conf
| /etc/init/networking.conf
| /etc/init.d/network-interface-security
| /etc/init.d/network-interface
| $ dpkg -s ifupdown
| Package: ifupdown
| Status: install ok installed
| Priority: important
| Section: admin
| Installed-Size: 272
| Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
| Architecture: i386
| Version: 0.6.8ubuntu29
| Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00)
| Depends: net-tools, libc6 (>= 2.7), debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, upstart-job, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9ubuntu3), netbase (>= 4.30ubuntu2)
| Suggests: iproute, dhcp3-client | dhcp-client, ppp
| Breaks: udev (<< 136-1)
| Description: high level tools to configure network interfaces
| This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to
| configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on
| interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces.
| Original-Maintainer: Anthony Towns <email address hidden>
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See also http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Fixed in maverick with the upload of ifupdown 0.6.10ubuntu1, using debhelper 7.