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

[Nigel Kersten]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.2

was pointed out earlier, but I guess it doesn't say that things
outside /etc can't be a conffile.

Still, following that seems to indicate we should move it to /etc? I
worry a little about the fact that the owner of the file matters so
much, but I guess we have to live with that.

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