On Sat, 2022-11-12 at 16:38 +0100, Axel Burri wrote: > Have a look at the deb package, and location looks fine for me: > ./etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf.example
Well but my point is, that I think in Debian it shouldn't be there, but rater in: /usr/share/doc/examples/btrbk.conf (no .example then). > This is moved around by debhelper [1], the btrbk Makefile clearly > moves > it to /etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf.example [2]. Yes, I think [2] is the reason why [1] puts it there, but it's not really a configuration file, just an example for it. Also it's registered as such: # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/btrbk.conffiles /etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf.example However, the example itself is never a (dpkg-)conffile, if people copy it to the real btrbk.conf than /etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf.example is still none, and if they move it there it's even a missing (dpkg-)conffile. I'm not a policy or debhelper expert (surely not), but I think this should be installed via dh_installexamples(1). If you should agree, be careful though, cause the file is now already "registered" as (dpkg-)conffile (which means dpkg wants to handle it). This often causes obsolete conffiles, when packages change from a (dpkg-)conffile to a "normal" (non-dpkg-handled) configuration file (at the same pathname). But since this wouldn't be the case here, I guess no problems should await. Yet, it might be better if you'd test upgrading first on some test system. Thanks, Chris.
