Re: Bug#2154: Minicom postinst script error

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: Bug#2154: Minicom postinst script error "):
> What I said was that I wasn't inclined to issue a new package (after
> having gone through two quick revisions) because:
> 
>  1) the particular placement in question didn't seem to be explicitly
> forbidden in the FSSSTND,
> 
>  2) it was the default for the upstream package, and in view of #1, it
> seemed an unnecessary incompatibility,

I think you haven't read the FSSTND closely enough.  It does specify
that configuration files belong in /etc.

It's a fact of being a Debian package maintainer that you sometimes
have to move files from their locations in the upstream packages,
because we want our packages to be consistent with each other.

>  3) the original author was going to be taking over the package in the
> very near future, so I wasn't the one who needed to be convinced,
> anyway.

Fine, that is a good reasons for not releasing a new package straight
away, but to me that doesn't justify closing the bug report ...

> Mike vS has I believe already released a new version that does in fact
> move some or all of that information back to /etc.

Good.

Thanks, and sorry for any misunderstanding,
Ian.