Policy Weekly Issue #4/5: Shared configuration files for news servers

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

Topic 5: Shared configuration files for news servers

STATE: APPROVAL

The following policy has been suggested on debian-policy and will become
official unless someone objects:

      News system configuration
      -------------------------

       All the configuration files related to the NNTP (news) servers and
       clients should be located under /etc/news. If any package has a
       large number of configuration files, (like, for example, inn does),
       then a package specific subdirectory under /etc/news should be used
       (example: /etc/news/suck or /etc/news/inn). If only one or two
       files are required, you may use a single file (example:
       /etc/news/mnews.conf).

       There are some configuration issues that apply to a number of
       news cliens and server packages on the machine, and these
       configuration values should be kept directly under /etc/news;
       specifically,

       /etc/news/organization: A string wich shall appear as the
                               organization header for all messages posted
                               by NNTP clients on the machine
       /etc/news/server:       Contains the FQDN of the upstream NNTP
                               server, or localhost if the local machine
                               is an NNTP server.

       Other global files may be added as required for cross-package news
       configuration.

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