Hi Simon I'm traveling right now, without good access to my Debian development environment. So, I won't be able to address this right away.
I have a vague recollection that I looked at this issue when I packaged this new feature. I think that I may have run into a Debian policy limitation (a warning from lintian), suggesting that a file in this location was not allowed to be writable by all users. If I'm wrong, and I can make the file writable in this location without violating policy, I'll do that. If not, we will either have to leave it as-is or investigate an alternative location that complies with policy. Ken

