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

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Oct 14 20:49:58 UTC 2006


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

This is arguably true, but does not answer my question, which is: what is
*broken* by having these files in /etc that warrants an RC severity?

You've suggested that the schema files may not work right with their
current location; that would be grounds for a grave bug if anything, not a
serious bug like the one you've filed.  But your bug report also makes it
clear that you didn't test the package and show that it failed to work, you
were reporting based on the FHS violation only, so there don't appear to be
any grounds for treating this as a grave bug either.

So unless you can point to specific breakage caused by these files in /etc
on the order of "the package is unusable" or "breaks other software", I
think this bug (and any others of its kind) should be treated as
"important".

Thanks,
-- 
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