Control: reassign -1 dpkg-dev Control: retitle -1 dpkg-vendor: Support reading vendor info from /usr Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: block -1 by 695781
On Sat, 2023-07-15 at 19:42:25 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.22 > Usertags: conffiles-reduction > currently files under /etc/dpkg/origin/ are used to store information about > the distro vendor, for example its homepage or the URL of the bug tracker. > > It doesn't make sense for this information to be configurable by the end > user. This information should thus be read from from `/usr` (for example > `/usr/share/dpkg/origins/`) instead of `/etc/dpkg/origins/`. While storing the origins or vendor information under /etc was probably a mistake at the time it got introduced, the problem now is that the pathname is part of its interface. And that interface in addition to the environment variables and the programmatic ones assume there's only a single pathname providing that information. This is compounded by the fact that the current origins or vendor information and structure might not be sufficient to describe all existing derivative practices, so before embarking on moving files around and all the breakage that would cause, this would need time spent on considering such cases to potentially handle all this in one go. For example see #695781. > This would also remove the need to ship an additional needless conffile in > `base-files` (`/usr/share/dpkg/origins/debian` would then be shipped as a > normal package file). While the previous makes sense, I do not consider a conffile by itself being problematic TBH. Thanks, Guillem
