Bug#755890: marked as done (debian-policy: Some directory anf files from etc have unknown package pattern)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 01:43:32PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:30:29AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is the directory and files wo package dependency:
> > > /etc/.java
> > > /etc/environment
> > > /etc/.pwd.lock
> > > /etc/subgid
> > > /etc/subuid
> > > Comamnd is dpkg -S files_on_siscussion
> > 
> > this is expected: packages can create configuration files through their
> > maintainer scripts.
> 
> I do not think this is the case for any of the files in the above list,
> except maybe /etc/environment. 

Hi Bill,

Codesesarch to the rescue:

* http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fetc%2F.java

java-common_0.52/debian/java-common.postinst:7
case "$1" in
configure)
    [ -d /etc/.java ] || mkdir -m 755 /etc/.java
    [ -d /etc/.java/.systemPrefs ] || mkdir -m 755 /etc/.java/.systemPrefs
    if [ ! -f /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock ]; then


* http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fetc%2Fsubgid

shadow_1:4.2-2/debian/changelog:76
  * Update documentation of UMASK: Explain that USERGROUPS_ENAB will modify
    this default for UPGs. (Closes: #583971)
  * login.postinst: install a default /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid
  * fix installation of setuid/setgid/newuidmap/newgid/map man pages

shadow_1:4.2-2/debian/login.postinst:36
        fi
        if [ ! -e /etc/subgid ]; then
                touch /etc/subgid
                chown root:root /etc/subgid


For /etc/.pwd.lock, it does not seem to be created at installation time, but
the file is not unknown to glibc and pam, and the Policy does not mandate
that /etc shall be read-only.

* http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fetc%2F.pwd.lock

glibc_2.19-7/shadow/lckpwdf.c:32
/* Name of the lock file.  */
#define PWD_LOCKFILE "/etc/.pwd.lock"
/* How long to wait for getting the lock before returning with an

pam_1.1.8-3/modules/pam_unix/lckpwdf.-c:33
#endif
#define LOCKFILE "/etc/.pwd.lock"
#define TIMEOUT 15


Cheers,

-- 
Charles