Hey. I strongly disagree that this should be in /usr, as it's configuration.
The fashion of recent years to place configuration in /usr is IMHO quite questionable: /usr is generally nothing that people are expected to monitor so if the distro decides to change a previous (distro-)default it will be unnoticed by users (in contrast to /etc). This can have quite bad effects if the users depends on such (previous) defaults. I think having defaults stored in /usr is kinda "ok" if these are upstream defaults (an upstream could also just change defaults in the sources without the enduser noticing it).. but I think distros shouldn't do so - especially if the changes don't match the default upstream behaviour. Cheers, Chris.