[This is a diversion from 5.005 problems :-) ] I maintain a Perl package, BioPerl, which has one '.pm' which is supposed to be customized for local characteristics, before installing. I'm wondering how to handle it and I would like to know if someone already got the problem:
1) Customize it for Debian and do not let users customize it. Unfortunately, the variables to define are really site-dependant. 2) Install it, but flag it as a conffile. May be lintian will not like conffiles in /usr/share/perl? 3) Rewrite the module to have it 'use' the real conffile, in /etc/bioperl... Difficult (especially if the upstream maintainer does not want to integrate my patches) but cleaner.
