Package: dpkg
Version: 1.21.22
Usertags: conffiles-reduction
Dear dpkg maintainer,
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/`. (Or in
addition to, using the classic stateless logic.)
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).
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
