On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:27:12PM -0700, Devin Carraway wrote: > If I don't do anything special, the package placing the schema file as > /etc/gconf/acme.schemas will be flagged by lintian with > file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile. Looking at some other packages, > gnome-gv doesn't put the file in debian/conffiles and yet its binary > packages are linitian-clean. The same goes for galeon, even though both > are putting files in /etc. How is that happening?
Without having looked, I'm guessing that they're both using DH_COMPAT=3, which causes dh_installdeb from debhelper to automatically add anything in /etc to conffiles. The bottom line is that files in /etc must follow the description on policy of how configuration files should behave. You can either do this by including the file in /etc in the .deb and adding it to conffiles, or by not including it in /etc in the .deb (perhaps /usr/share/<package>, or autogenerated) and managing it in your maintainer scripts. Any file that actually goes in /etc in a .deb will be blithely overwritten by dpkg on each upgrade, which isn't allowed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
