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Debconf Configuration Worksheet

FreedomBox should never edit configuration files that are installed by dpkg directly (so-called conffiles), because this will prevent automatic upgrades via UnattendedUpgrades (because overwriting conffiles requires manual confirmation). Instead, the goal is to do all of Plinth's configuration through debconf. For that, we will need to convince package maintainers to add debconf support to their packages, and to add the hooks that we need. This can be done by filing wish-list bug reports against those packages. Offering a patch should improve our chances of success.

Note that debconf is preferred over alternative methods like .d directories or multilevel support: Debconf keeps the maintenance task of tracking intimate configuration details as much as possible at the package maintainer, thus prevents us from duplicating that effort.

Below is a list of configuration files on the FreedomBox which are owned or configured by other packages, and are currently modified by scripts in freedombox-setup or plinth. You can find modified conffiles on your FreedomBox with the following command:

dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' '*' | awk 'OFS="  "{print $2,$1}' | LANG=C md5sum -c 2>/dev/null | awk -F': ' '$2 !~ /OK$/{print $1}' | sort

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