Dominik Stadler <dominik.stadler@gmx.at> writes: > Hi, > > I started working on a debian-package. The application uses the Qt-Library as > basis (no KDE). During startup, the application looks in a directory > "/usr/etc/settings/" for system-wide settings for the application. This is > not coded inside the application, but a feature of the Qt-Library. Uh, are you sure? If it's using QSettings, you can modify the search path to be something sane. Or is it getting set through a configure script? Showing us the source would be helpful. > If I try to include a configfile in this directory, lintian complains about > this with several errors and warnings. Rightly so. > I need the configfile there in order to set some system-wide settings that are > required to run the application. Without them, every user will need to do > manual configuration when starting the application. > > My question therefore: Is this a case where lintian should allow an exception, > because I have no other way of telling the Qt-Library to search in a > different directory? Or is it simply not possible? No, this certainly shouldn't be allowable. -- I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.
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