Location of gconf schema files

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

During the review of one of my packages it was pointed out that files under 
/etc/gconf/schemas should not be marked %config, because they shouldnot be 
edited and because leaving old edited versions there when using 
%config(noreplace) could have bad side effects on the working of gconf.

So I filed a bug against rpmlint as rpmlint complains about files under 
/etc/gconf/schemas not beging %config:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235487

Ville then asked the question in that BZ ticket, that since these files 
shouldn't be edited, that we really should be installing them under /usr/share. 
I also know of atleast one package where upstream by default does exactly that.

Ville also found a Debian draft policy on this:
http://burtonini.com/computing/gnome-policy-20050123.html#id2447554

I tend to agree with Ville's and the Debian draft policy's reasoning, these 
files really should be under /usr/share (and gconf should be tought to look in 
both locations)

So what do others think? I would like to see some discussion on this here and 
then I would like to see / ask the FPC (to) make a decision on this, includng 
whether or not to use %config for them.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans