[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#851618: Bug#851618: lirc: adequate reports multiple obsolete-conffiles for lirc Package: lirc

[Alec Leamas]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:52:48 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
 > On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 15:22 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
 >
 > > So, since this is a bug, have you any pointer/idea how to resolve it?
 >
 > Since this isn't one of the standard 'conffile got removed' or
 > 'conffile got renamed' situations, I'm not really sure. You might want
 > to ask debian-mentors or debian-devel or on the dpkg list.

Done, using debian-mentors  [1]. Conclusions:

    - The warnings about obsolete files are false positives in this context.
    - The *.dist files used would be better off stored under /usr/share 
instead of /etc

My plan is thus to move the *dist files to /usr/share... This will *not* 
mute the dpkg/adequate warnings, but is more sane from an overall  FHS 
point of view. Leaving bug open until this is fixed .

--alec


[1]   https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2017/01/msg00418.html

--alec