Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>]

Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> Backups would be much easier if _all_ the configurable files are in /etc
> and /usr can't be mounted readonly if one has to change the app-defaults
> file. (Shouldn't, as a simple rule, all files that are referred by the
> debpkg-conffiles be placed in /etc ?)

Please peruse /usr/doc/X11/debian.README, to understand why I say
that, on Debian, app-defaults files are not considered configurable.

If you disagree with this, as many seem to, please propose a solution
whereby package maintainers can easily make sure that app-defaults
files are updated to reflect any changes introduced in the upstream
app-defaults file.

Mike.