[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524858: hal-info puts configuration files in /usr/share

[Bjørn Mork]

Package: hal-info
Version: 20090309-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.2

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hal-info contains a mix of hardware dependent quirks and system dependent
configuration, all of which are placed in /usr/share/hal.

The files /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-* are
all examples of files matching the definition of a configuration file in
Debian (policy 10.7.1):

 "A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site- or
  host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the behavior of a
  program. Typically, configuration files are intended to be modified
  by the system administrator (if needed or desired) to conform to local
  policy or to provide more useful site-specific behavior."

Policy require such files to reside in /etc.  My suggestion would be to
move them to /usr/share/doc/hal-info/examples and only keep strict
quirks in /usr/share/hal.  


Bjørn

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

- -- no debconf information

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