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

[Philip Brown]

2011/2/6 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> 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?

reguardless of file collision or not, htdig is doing it *wrong*.
it should never ship "mime.types" directly.

But yes its a collision too, and probably a shared mime-types package
could be a good thing.