Bug#1051847: marked as done (iproute2 ships configuration files in /usr/lib violating debian-policy)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1051847,
regarding iproute2 ships configuration files in /usr/lib violating debian-policy
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Package: iproute2
Version: 6.1.0-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.2
X-Debbugs-Cc: dxld@darkboxed.org
Dear Maintainer,
your iproute2 6.5.0-3 package installs configuration files in
/usr/lib/iproute2. This is a blatant violation of debian-policy
section 10.7.2. "Configuration files / Location" which states as
follows:
> Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside
> in /etc. If there are several, consider creating a subdirectory of
> /etc named after your package.
As I've mentioned in Bug#1051577 this is related to upstream commit
commit 0a0a8f12fa1b03dd0ccbebf5f85209d1c8a0f580
Read configuration files from /etc and /usr
Add support for the so called "stateless" configuration pattern (read
from /etc, fall back to /usr), giving system administrators a way to
define local configuration without changing any distro-provided files.
In practice this means that each configuration file FOO is loaded
from /usr/lib/iproute2/FOO unless /etc/iproute2/FOO exists.
but moving the config files from /etc/iproute to /usr/lib is
misguided and should be overriden in your Debian package.
Thanks,
--Daniel
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Daniel
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 04:11:16PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> your iproute2 6.5.0-3 package installs configuration files in
> /usr/lib/iproute2. This is a blatant violation of debian-policy
> section 10.7.2. "Configuration files / Location" which states as
> follows:
No, it does not. The files in /usr are defaults. Those should be
copied to /etc for modification, which is config.
Bastian
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