[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#335808: cupsys: writes to /etc/cups/ppds.dat, should write to somewhere else

[Francesco Poli]

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