Package: arpwatch
Version: 2.1a15-1
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile
Justification: Any configuration files created or used by your package must
reside in `/etc'.
See policy section 10.7.2. Location for details.
,----
| 10.7.1. Definitions
| -------------------
|
| configuration file
| A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site-
| or host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the
| behavior of a program. Typically, configuration files are
| intended to be modified by the system administrator (if needed or
| desired) to conform to local policy or to provide more useful
| site-specific behavior.
|
| `conffile'
| A file listed in a package's `conffiles' file, and is treated
| specially by `dpkg' (see Section 6.7, `Details of
| configuration').
|
| The distinction between these two is important; they are not
| interchangeable concepts. Almost all `conffile's are configuration
| files, but many configuration files are not `conffiles'.
|
| As noted elsewhere, `/etc/init.d' scripts, `/etc/default' files,
| scripts installed in `/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}', and
| cron configuration installed in `/etc/cron.d' must be treated as
| configuration files. In general, any script that embeds configuration
| information is de-facto a configuration file and should be treated as
| such.
|
| 10.7.2. Location
| ----------------
|
| Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside in
| `/etc'. If there are several, consider creating a subdirectory of
| `/etc' named after your package.
|
| If your package creates or uses configuration files outside of `/etc',
| and it is not feasible to modify the package to use `/etc' directly,
| put the files in `/etc' and create symbolic links to those files from
| the location that the package requires.
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manoj
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages arpwatch depends on:
ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.10.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpcap0.8 1.0.0-4 system interface for user-level pa
arpwatch recommends no packages.
arpwatch suggests no packages.
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