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

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/04/2016 06:14 PM, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't --sysconfdir=/etc/sympa put the configuration file in the supposed location
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf instead of /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf?

Regards
        Racke

> 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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