Re: Sponsorship for GNUMP3d
Steve Kemp <skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> After a bit more tweaking I have a new package for gnump3d, I'm still
> having one problem though:
> Now running lintian...
> E: gnump3d: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/init.d/gnump3d
> E: gnump3d: init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/gnump3d
> Finished running lintian.
> In my ruls file I've got the following:
> dh_installinit gnump3d.init
> It was my understanding that this should mark the given file as an
> init file - but this doesn't appear to be the case; what is it I'm missing?
[...]
You have to mark it as conffile, see Policy 11.7.
http://www.at.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config%20files
Either use
echo /etc/init.d/gnump3d > debian/(gnump3d.)conffiles
or DH_COMPAT=3 (with builddeps on debhelper (>> 3.0.0)).
cu andreas
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