Bug#926707: cups: please do not generate files under /etc but use /var/lib for that (etckeeper woes)
Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.21.6-4
Severity: normal
With etckeeper on a laptop that often is taken around to different networks,
I see lines like these on apt-get --purge dist-upgrade all the time:
[master 48dee15] saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
[…]
create mode 100644 cups/ppd/pr_bn_1og_Brother_HL_L8250CDN_Laser_Colour_Duplex_172_2.ppd
[…]
So, these files are autogenerated and not created then changed by the
local admin. (They are also automatically deleted). There’s a place for
such files in the filesystem standard, and it’s /var/lib not /etc.
Please move this stuff out of /etc, TYVM.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers buildd-unstable
APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages cups-browsed depends on:
ii cups-daemon 2.2.10-5
ii libavahi-client3 0.7-4+b1
ii libavahi-common3 0.7-4+b1
ii libavahi-glib1 0.7-4+b1
ii libc6 2.28-8
ii libcups2 2.2.10-5
ii libcupsfilters1 1.21.6-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-1
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.47+dfsg-3
ii lsb-base 10.2019031300
Versions of packages cups-browsed recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.7-4+b1
cups-browsed suggests no packages.
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