Updating the recommendations for user configuration files (Policy chapter 9)

2011-05-19 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
Dear Debian Policy Maintainers, Policy section 9.1.1 (File System Structure) [0] talks about per-user configuration files and says: «It is recommended that such files start with the '.' character (a dot file), and if an application needs to create more than one dot file then the preferred

Re: Updating the recommendations for user configuration files (Policy chapter 9)

2011-05-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 15:15:39 +0200, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) wrote: As you probably know, there is now a trend [2][3] of placing all configuration files into the same directory, which defaults to ~/.config/ but can be changed, as well as two separate directories for user

Re: Updating the recommendations for user configuration files (Policy chapter 9)

2011-05-19 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 19/05/11 19:30, Russ Allbery wrote: I think it's going to be very difficult to do this through Policy. This would mean Debian-specific patches to a *LOT* of software. Usually we only put things like this into Policy once they're almost entirely adopted already, to clean up the stragglers.

Re: Updating the recommendations for user configuration files (Policy chapter 9)

2011-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org writes: On 19/05/11 19:30, Russ Allbery wrote: I think it's going to be very difficult to do this through Policy. This would mean Debian-specific patches to a *LOT* of software. Usually we only put things like this into Policy once they're almost

Re: Updating the recommendations for user configuration files (Policy chapter 9)

2011-05-19 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
Hi Russ, Thanks for your prompt answer. 2011/5/19 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: I think it's going to be very difficult to do this through Policy.  This would mean Debian-specific patches to a *LOT* of software. I agree. Usually we only put things like this into Policy once they're almost