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

[Russ Allbery]

Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:

>> 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.

It does, actually:

    Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside in
    /etc.

Also, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is the relevant document here
(referred to by Policy).  It says:

    The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A "configuration
    file" is a local file used to control the operation of a program; it
    must be static and cannot be an executable binary.

and:

    /usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable,
    read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between
    various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any
    information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored
    elsewhere.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>