[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#483128: /usr/share/hal/fdi/ is neither shareable, nor marked as conffiles in /etc

[Tim Connors]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3

HAL completely abuses the FHS.  Why /usr/share/hal/fdi?

Given how often people have to modify /usr/share/hal/fdi/*[1] to
fix[2] broken HAL behaviour (and this definitely applies to upstream
as well) which then gets blown away upon the next HAL upgrade, and
given how these files control policy that must be able to be setup by
the sysadmin[2], then these files must be configuration files (section
10.7.3).  As 10.7.3 states, you might as well mark them as conffiles.

As per 10.7.2, configuration files must be in /etc.

Since they only add to 1mb, it's not like they shouldn't be in /etc
for space reasons.


[1] Someone on LUV just mentioned how much pain
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi
causes

I've been battling
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi

[2] It's not like HAL is actually documented so we can fix these the
"proper" ways.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.107       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20080508-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                        2.7-11      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.74-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-4    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.0-4   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.3-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.11-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.11-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1                   0.13.13-1   Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.0-4     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-11 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0                0.114-2     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-12      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.0.0-4   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                     1.1.1-1     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                         0.114-2     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.73-8      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-8    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin                 0.13.13-1  Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

-- no debconf information