upgrade by installing deb will overwrite config.json

[anantshri]

The current deb includes config.json in it which effectively will overwrite the existing config.json. Either we need to provide a customization option or we need to remove config.json.

We also need to figure out how new user will get config.json for the first time. ideal location could be in post install script. just adding a clause to copy over config.json.defaults to config.json in case it doesn't already exist should sort the issue out.

[schrnz]

Totally agree. The problem is that config.json was committed once and now its entry in .gitignore does not help anymore.
Btw scripts/first_time.rb does exactly what you ask for, it copies over config.json.defaults.
Related: #400

[BuffaloWill]

The updates to first_time.rb in @schrnz's PR should fix this. Apologies again @anantshri, we never intend to be destructive with user's data.