[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#839728: Odd changes to Sympa configuration files

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

Racke,

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:03:13PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
[...]

> I produced a backport of the new 6.2 packages and the main configuration file ends up
> as /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf which seems quite odd to me.
This is an upstream choice:

See https://www.sympa.org/index

"""
Default config location is now /etc/sympa/ (or $sysconfig/sympa/)
instead of /etc/. This solves the problem of config file lock creation
being denied when trying to read the binary version of the config file
at startup
"""

> The other problem is that the user isn't notified about the new location and the
> fact that wwsympa.conf was merged as well.
Yes, I agree that we could add some informations about this in
debian/NEWS.

Regards,

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