[csw-maintainers] Config files with and without .CSW postfix and the same base name

[Peter FELECAN]

Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> I've discovered a potential issue with configuration files.  One
> package may ship a configuration file directly, while other may ship a
> file with the .CSW postfix.  For example, /etc/opt/csw/mime.types.CSW
> is shipped by CSWmutt-base, while CSWhtdig ships
> /etc/opt/csw/mime.types.  When CSWmutt-base is installed first,
> subsequent installation of CSWhtdig will overwrite the mime.types
> file.
>
> Should we consider this scenario a file collision?

Yes. A potential collision. IMO, this mime.types is so generic that I
would think that it belongs in a specific package, maybe a common
one. Or, I don't fully understand this mime.types stuff.
-- 
Peter