Bug#326637: Should /etc/X11/xkb/* be conffiles at all?

[Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:03:19AM +0100, ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:28:41PM +0100, J??r??me Warnier wrote:
> > > I wonder if those files should really be conffiles at all, as it is
> > > asking for a lot of confirmations to override with new maintainer's
> > > version from anyone trying to upgrade from one version to another (for
> > > example Sarge to Etch), while those files have never been modified by
> > > the user.
> > > 
> > > If they are not conffiles, they should not be in /etc either (they take
> > > 2.4M on my Sarge) by FHS.
> > 
> > They are conffiles, yes.
> 
> There's a real need to change the definition of conffiles 
> then.
> Because having not configuration files like READMEs in /etc is not
> useful and in fact causes lots of problems.
> 
> The definition of conffiles I'd like to use would be:
> A conffile is a file where the user changed anything from system
> default.
> 
> With this definition READMEs and keybinding standard data files should
> be in /usr since the user didn't change them from the default.

READMEs don't belong there in the most case, except in cases like
apache2 where you need one to navigate the directory.

Users change keybindings.

Daniel, running with an entirely custom keymap