Re: lintian/tcpquota
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980215212512.13442A-100000@monet>,
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> wrote:
>On 15 Feb 1998, Ulf Fredriksson wrote:
>
>> 3. W: tcpquota: relative-conffile etc/cron.weekly/tcpquotad
>> W: tcpquota: relative-conffile etc/init.d/tcpquotad
>> W: tcpquota: relative-conffile etc/tcpquota/tcpquota.cf
>>
>> I read in some of the new-maintainer docs before I became
>> a developer that that was the way, use relative paths...
>>
>> When I create the package, it should install in 'debian/tmp/....'
>> NOT '/etc'... That's why I used relative, because when the install
>> is taking place, it is installed in '/etc'... Explanation
>> wanted please...
>[snip]
>
>Please check out the Policy Manual, section 3.3.5 for details.
>
>Links into /etc and /var should be absolute, all others relative.
Correct, but the answer to the wrong question. I don't think he's
talking about symlinks.
The filenames in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/conffiles should be absolute (start
with a `/') because they refer to the files as they will exist on
the machine where they are installed. When you install them into the
debian/tmp heirachy, though, you'll probably need to use relative names.
(Sorry, Turbo, if I've got the wrong end of the stick; I have no direct
'net access from here, so I can't check your package.)
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