Bug#335808: cupsys: writes to /etc/cups/ppds.dat, should write to somewhere else
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-10
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
FHS v2.3 chapter 2[1] states, in part:
| "Static" files include binaries, libraries, documentation files
| and other files that do not change without system administrator
| intervention
Later on, section about /etc states, in part:
| The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A "configuration file"
| [...] must be static
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEFILESYSTEM
[2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION
cupsys writes data to /etc/cups/ppds.dat: this file should
be moved elsewhere (/var/something?).
Moving the file will be useful, once FHS 2.3 compliance is mandated by
Policy (currently FHS 2.1 compliance is required).
Thanks for your attention.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.0.11a-2 OpenSLP libraries
ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.4-8 Core Perl modules
ii xpdf-utils 3.00-13 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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