GConf schemas and debian/conffiles
I'm trying to package up acme, a GNOME2 utility for making "multimedia"
keyboard buttons work.
One problem I've observed: acme uses GConf, which stores schema files
under /etc/gconf/. The schema files give the configuration structure
and default values, but aren't configuration files themselves, exactly.
If I don't do anything special, the package placing the schema file as
/etc/gconf/acme.schemas will be flagged by lintian with
file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile. Looking at some other packages,
gnome-gv doesn't put the file in debian/conffiles and yet its binary
packages are linitian-clean. The same goes for galeon, even though both
are putting files in /etc. How is that happening?
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