[pkg-ggz-maintainers] Bug#392313: package still ships gconf schemas in /etc

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 13 octobre 2006 à 13:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Hi Josselin,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:56:20AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> > The /etc/gconf/schemas/ggz-gnome.schemas file contains GConf schemas
> > which have nothing to do in /etc. They have to be moved to /usr/share to
> > comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
> 
> Could you comment whether having them in /etc breaks anything
> functionality-wise?  The line between configuration data and
> non-configuration data is a blurry one in the FHS, and often doesn't warrant
> a release-critical bug.

Schemas are not meant to be configurable. The place for setting default
values for the administrator is /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults. If
someone changes the schemas, they have to be registered again - in a way
that is not well documented - otherwise the change won't be taken into
account, and default values that don't correspond with the schema
anymore won't be removed at the time of schema un-registration. Which
means cruft can be let in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults at the time of
package purge.

Furthermore, this package didn't even register the schemas as defaults,
which means the default values weren't even available to the
application. Depending on the application, it can generate a warning or
simply not work at all.

Maybe I should find some time to write up a small policy document based
on what dh_gconf does and why. Currently, all packages using GConf build
with debhelper one way or another and I have ensured they all use
dh_gconf.
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