Question about configuration files.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hi.

Policy says:

   Only packages that are tagged conflicting with each other may specify
   the same file as conffile. A package may not modify a configuration
   file of another package.

Since I have to modify debstd so that it does not support modifying
configuration files for other packages the way it did, I ask:

Are there any facilities provided by the system to modify certain
files?

For example, for /etc/passwd we have adduser.

Is there a similar tool for adding entries to /etc/aliases?

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