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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 14 octobre 2006 à 13:49 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > > 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".

It all depends on whether you consider interaction with system
administrator settings and ability to remove packages cleanly to be RC
or not.

Furthermore, when all packages in the distribution follow that rule,
with a visible improvement in the quality of GConf handling (no more bug
reports received for /etc cluttering, ability to edit default settings
in a clean manner, no more /root cluttering), I think we can ask the
*only* package not following that rule to be fixed before the release.

Regards,
-- 
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