Package: iproute2
Version: 6.1.0-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.2
X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@darkboxed.org
Dear Maintainer,
your iproute2 6.5.0-3 package installs configuration files in
/usr/lib/iproute2. This is a blatant violation of debian-policy
section 10.7.2. "Configuration files / Location" which states as
follows:
> Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside
> in /etc. If there are several, consider creating a subdirectory of
> /etc named after your package.
As I've mentioned in Bug#1051577 this is related to upstream commit
commit 0a0a8f12fa1b03dd0ccbebf5f85209d1c8a0f580
Read configuration files from /etc and /usr
Add support for the so called "stateless" configuration pattern (read
from /etc, fall back to /usr), giving system administrators a way to
define local configuration without changing any distro-provided files.
In practice this means that each configuration file FOO is loaded
from /usr/lib/iproute2/FOO unless /etc/iproute2/FOO exists.
but moving the config files from /etc/iproute to /usr/lib is
misguided and should be overriden in your Debian package.
Thanks,
--Daniel
