Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> I don't think that /etc/shadow qualifies as a "configuration file",
> either; I would call it "variable state information" (→ /var/lib), but
> it lives in /etc because a) it has to be on the root filesystem, b)
> that's where it's always been so moving it somewhere else would be more
> trouble than it's worth.

> For other packages like sasl (or, say, samba, which stores all its
> authentication databases in /var/lib/samba in Debian), neither of these
> arguments holds AFAICS.

Actually, now that I look at the sasldb2 file, I think you're right.  I
was under the mistaken impression that it was a file that administrators
were expected to edit with a text editor, but it's actually a binary file
format that's manipulated only via utilities.  You're right; this probably
doesn't belong in /etc at all and should instead be somewhere in /var.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>