fonts packages review and conffile-without-noreplace-flag warning

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:11 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi,
>   While reviewing fonts-japanese
> package(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225765#c10),
> I got explanation from maintainer of this package for ignoring
> conffile-without-noreplace-flag warning and i think he is right to his
> explanation. I need some more advice on this problem.

Question: Is it really a configuration file? 

To determine this, ask, will a user be permitted to change it? If the
answer is yes, then the user will be quite unhappy to have it replaced
by the stock copy when they do a package update. If it is not something
designed to be hand-edited (or shipped with a tool to edit), then its
probably not a config file.

IMHO, there are very very very few cases where %config without noreplace
is acceptable.

~spot