Is the missing /etc/default/ddclient file a bug or not?

[NoOp]

On 01/24/2008 02:57 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
> I noticed that the /etc/init.d/ddclient script expects to find an
> /etc/default/ddclient file, which the ddclient package does not
> provide, and filed a bug report [1] for it, but the report was marked
> invalid because the package contains a sample /etc/ddclient.conf file.
> 
> In my experience, packages that use both a default and a config file
> provide samples of both.  Am I wrong?
> 
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ddclient/+bug/185036
> 
> 

Perhaps you have a bad install. I run ddclient on several computers and
all have /etc/default/ddclient. I just did a new intall on this system
(haven't configured it yet), and indeed it does install
/etc/default/ddclient:

> # Configuration for ddclient scripts 
> # generated from debconf on Thu Jan 24 10:03:16 PST 2008
> #
> # /etc/default/ddclient
> 
> # Set to "true" if ddclient should be run every time a new ppp connection is 
> # established. This might be useful, if you are using dial-on-demand
> run_ipup="false"
> 
> # Set to "true" if ddclient should run in daemon mode
> run_daemon="true"
> 
> # Set the time interval between the updates of the dynamic DNS name in seconds.
> # This option only takes effect if the ddclient runs in daemon mode.
> daemon_interval="300"