Lintian Reports

E non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile

All reports of non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

A file installed in some other directory than /etc is marked as conffile. A conffile typically implies a configuration file, and Policy mandates such files to be in /etc.

Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.7.2 (Location) for details.

Severity: serious, Certainty: possible

Check: conffiles, Type: binary

Evolution of the non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile Lintian tag over the past 366 days:

The beforementioned graph for the non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile tag

Emitted (non-overridden): 0, overridden: 36, total: 36

The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.

nis 3.17.1-3+b1 (binary) (Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>) overridden

smartlist 3.15-25+b1 (binary) (Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>) overridden