On 23/12/24 16:23, Daniel Gröber wrote:
As an example I'm familiar with iproute2 moved it's default config from /etc/iproute2 to /usr/share/iproute2 in trixie, that is it actually *loads* the config from there, it's not just example files so in that case upstream patching or symlink trickery would be required to make the package conformant to this convention. I've tried arguing this is a blatant disregard of policy but that fell on deaf ears so far.
How is that against policy?Is it against policy to have default config values hardcoded in a binary? Why things change if these hardcoded values are moved to a read-only file in /usr? (The user/admin configuration is still in /etc.)
Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci