Control: severity -1 wishlist On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 08:38:33PM +0000, Chris Nehren wrote: > I've installed pdnsd on a system in testing for rolling out > to production. The configuration that this package currently > uses, with the configuration in /usr/share/pdnsd, violates Debian > Policy section 9.1.1 (filesystem hierarchy), FHS specifications > for /etc and /usr/share. The configs are definitely not read-only, > and thus do not belong in /usr/share.
$ apt-file search -x '^/usr/share.*\.conf$' | wc -l 3230 $ apt-file search -x '^/usr/share.*\.conf$' | cut -d: -f1 | uniq | wc -l 854 $ Are you sure that 850 packages are suddenly rc-buggy without anyone noticing? > Arguably the entire AUTO_MODE configuration system should be > removed because it is a blatant violation of both the FHS (and > Debian Policy by reference) and POLA. In no circumstance would I > expect to find configuration in /usr/share, ever. Also look into /lib/systemd/system, there are tons of configuration files as well. No, this really is not a FHS violation unless the only way to override these configurations is to change /usr, but you can simply change the one in /etc. Not a bug. > This is related to something else I found, which I'm not > sure whether to file as a separate bug. When I use my > own configuration instead of the bizarre /usr/share/pdnsd > configuration, the init scripts makes assumptions that are not > made clear: specifically, that pdnsd needs to drop privileges > to the autocreated pdnsd user and that I must enable the > status socket. The privilege dropping is obvious, but it > should still be made clear to the administrator when using > their own configuration. Without these settings, pdnsd and > its init script don't function properly. If this should be > filed separately, I'll be glad to do so. If you break it, you take the pieces, no? I kinda fail to see a bug here. For the most part it appears to be a documentation issue. Can you point out a use case that is not served by the package or a part of its documentation that you'd like to see improved? Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
