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Package: powersaved
Version: 0.15.20-3
Severity: serious
Any non-trivial configuration of powersaved requires writing event scripts.
At the moment these scripts must be placed under /usr/lib/powersave/scripts
which violates Debian Policy (see below). Please respect the policy.
Some excerpts from Debian Policy:
10.7.1 Definitions
configuration file
A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site-
or host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the behavior of
a program.
... In general, any script that embeds configuration information is
de-facto a configuration file and should be treated as such.
10.7.2 Location
Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside in
/etc. If there are several, consider creating a subdirectory of /etc
named after your package.
If your package creates or uses configuration files outside of /etc,
and it is not feasible to modify the package to use /etc directly, put
the files in /etc and create symbolic links to those files from the
location that the package requires.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (100,
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages powersaved depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii hal 0.5.11-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii liblazy1 0.2-5 convenience functions for D-Bus, H
ii libpowersave11 0.15.20-3 power management daemon - shared l
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages powersaved recommends:
ii acpid 1.0.6-13 Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii cpufrequtils 004-2 utilities to deal with the cpufreq
Versions of packages powersaved suggests:
pn kpowersave <none> (no description available)
ii zenity 2.22.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
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Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> Package: powersaved
> Version: 0.15.20-3
> Severity: serious
>
This severity is totally exagerrated. wishlist would have been much more
appropriate
> Any non-trivial configuration of powersaved requires writing event scripts.
> At the moment these scripts must be placed under /usr/lib/powersave/scripts
> which violates Debian Policy (see below). Please respect the policy.
I don't agree. Event scripts are not configuration files and shouldn't
be edited. If you want to create locally modified scripts, feel free to
put them under /etc and symlink them.
Closing
Michael
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