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-[[!meta title="debian packaging postinst script clobbers gpg.conf settings in /var/lib/monkeysphere" ]]
-
-Do we want to allow the system administrator to make adjustments to
-the `gpg.conf` config files found in `/var/lib/monkeysphere`?  At the
-moment, there are two such files:
-
- * `/var/lib/monkeysphere/gnupg-authentication/gpg.conf`
- * `/var/lib/monkeysphere/gnupg-host/gpg.conf`
-
-In the debian postinst scripts (`debian/monkeysphere.postinst`), the
-contents of those files are overwritten on every upgrade/reinstall,
-effectively clobbering any changes made by the local admin.
-
-Maybe we *do* want to do this clobbering, though.  Stuff in `/var` is
-generally not expected to be modified by hand.  I see two possible
-resolutions to this:
-
- * when we clobber those files, include a comment along the lines of:
-    # do not make changes to this file!  It is overwritten on each upgrade!
-
- * Avoid clobbering the files, and treat them as config files.
-
-the latter approach suggests that they should be more properly stored
-in `/etc/`, though.  This would give us all the conf-file tracking
-apparatus, which is nice.  If we do want to do that, I guess we'd
-symlink to them from the monkeysphere-specific `$GNUPGHOME`s in
-`/var/lib/monkeysphere`, since `gpg` does not seem to allow for
-overriding the location of the `gpg.conf` independent of `$GNUPGHOME`.
-
----
-
-All the gpg.conf files now reside in /etc/monkeysphere, and are linked
-in into the GNUPGHOMEs in /var/lib/monkeysphere.
-
-[[bugs/done]] on 2008-10-11