Bug#2717: conffiles in /usr

[Stephen Early <sde1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Sven Rudolph wrote:

> $ cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
> $ egrep "\/usr" *.conffiles
[...]
> knews.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews
> xbmbrowser.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XbmBrowser
> xbmbrowser.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XbmBrowser-color
> xcal.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCal
> xcal.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCal.help
> xdvik.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XDvi
> xdvik.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XDvi-color
> xearth.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XEarth
> xinvaders.conffiles:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Vaders

NB app-defaults files should not be marked as conffiles. Global
customisations to X applications should be made in /etc/X11/Xresources.

Do you think it's worth submitting separate bug reports for these packages?

Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk