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Bug#293443: Alert on conffile outside /etc



Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: normal

A conffile almost always implies a configuration file. A conffile
outside /etc is therefore quite likely a mistake.

--Jeroen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.15-5        The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.35-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.12-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.1-7      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian            0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-19      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.4-5       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl



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