webmin, zentyal, conf file policy, etc

[Neal McBurnett]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:22:26PM +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On 2012-10-03 14:05, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > It's not a question of fair or not fair.  The policy is what it is for good 
> > reasons.  It does not say that external packages are not allowed to change 
> > configuration, but that they have to do so via a program provided by the 
> > package.  This gives a defined interface and reduces the risk of incorrect 
> > changes.  I think this makes a lot of sense.
> 
> I agree, but the problem is that most programs don't have this. If you are
> lucky, a program supports "change the configuration files and SIGHUP the
> daemon". Why doesn't Debian policy require them have this interface? In the
> absence of that requirement, the onus is on the webmin team to do their
> work for them.

How does ebox/zentyal deal with this?

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/