[Pkg-puppet-devel] should config.ru be a conffile?

Andrew Pollock apollock at debian.org
Mon Sep 27 16:11:50 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:02:03PM -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> 
> So I'd like some Debian-Best-Practices advice here now that I've done
> some symlink tests, which all work.
> 
> the rack directory for puppetmasterd/passenger is analogous to an
> Apache virtualhost DocumentRoot as I see it, thus it really doesn't
> belong in /etc.
> 
> However we want the config.ru file to be a conffile, and thus it needs
> to belong in /etc.

I'd have to go and recheck Debian Policy, but I don't believe there's a
requirement for a file to be in /etc to be a conffile, it just so happens
that debhelper will automatically mark any file in /etc as a conffile.
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