Local configuration file gets overwritten by byobu-config

[zorun]

/etc/byobu/statusrc is a sample config file (that gets read first by byobu), with the mention:

# Byobu's default status notifications
# Override these in $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status

First, there's no clue about what $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR might be (I had to read through the code to find out it is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME i.e. ~/.config/byobu by default).

So I copied this to ~/.config/byobu/status and edited it. However, running byobu-config reseted this file to only keep notification configuration (thus deleting commented and uncommented configuration variables). This is annoying...

I just happened to see that byobu also look for ~/.config/byobu/statusrc (probably for backward compatibility, but since byobu was using ~/.byobu before, backward compatibility is broken anyway).

I am thus suggesting the following (btw, tell me if my attempt at configuring byobu started the wrong way):

* keeping names consistent (either use '/etc/byobu/status' and '~/.config/byobu/status' or both files named 'statusrc')
* byobu-config should leave unmodified any line it doesn't know about in '~/.config/byobu/status';
* on the first run of byobu, populate '~/.config/byobu/status' with commented configuration variables: maybe copy '/etc/byobu/statusrc' if it exists (that makes sense because distro packagers may want to activate/deactivate some notifications by default), and bundle an hard-coded default version otherwise;
* adding 'NETWORK_UNITS' to '/etc/byobu/statusrc';
* adding commentaries about the goal and allowed value of each configuration variable (eg. the unit of NETWORK_THRESHOLD). It's in the man, but having to look through every page of byobu man just to have a very basic piece of knowledge is a bit harsh.

If there's some obscure reasons for these facts I didn't see, well, you have all of my excuses.
Keep making byobu a very cool project !

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 4.18-0ubuntu1

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byobu (4.18-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * usr/bin/byobu, usr/bin/byobu-status:
    - remove some redundancies
  * usr/bin/byobu, usr/bin/byobu-config, usr/bin/byobu-ctrl-a,
    usr/bin/byobu-disable, usr/bin/byobu-launcher, usr/bin/byobu-quiet,
    usr/bin/byobu-reconnect-sockets, usr/bin/byobu-select-profile,
    usr/bin/byobu-select-session, usr/lib/byobu/.constants:
    - use a BYOBU_BACKEND environment variable, to support both screen
      and tmux
  * etc/byobu/socketdir, usr/bin/byobu, usr/lib/byobu/date,
    usr/lib/byobu/notify_osd, usr/share/byobu/keybindings/f-keys,
    usr/share/byobu/keybindings/screen-escape-keys,
    usr/share/byobu/profiles/common, usr/share/byobu/profiles/NONE,
    usr/share/byobu/profiles/tmux, usr/share/byobu/windows/common:
    - use a BYOBU_BACKEND environment variable, to support both screen
      and tmux
  * usr/lib/byobu/.common, usr/lib/byobu/.constants:
    - ensure that libraries only get included once
  * === removed directory usr/sbin, usr/sbin/byobu-classroom =>
    experimental/byobu-classroom:
    - move the classroom to experimental (about to be an ensemble formula)
  * etc/byobu/backend, usr/lib/byobu/.constants:
    - add support for storing byobu backend configuration (screen|tmux)
  * debian/control: start suggesting tmux
  * usr/bin/byobu, usr/lib/byobu/.constants:
    - support tmux -V version
  * usr/lib/byobu/.shutil:
    - update ec2 detection method
  * === added directory usr/share/byobu/status, configure.ac,
    etc/byobu/statusrc, experimental/byobu-status-all => usr/bin/byobu-
    statusd, Makefile.am, usr/bin/byobu-janitor, usr/bin/byobu-status-
    print, usr/bin/Makefile.am, usr/lib/byobu/color,
    usr/lib/byobu/.constants, usr/lib/byobu/Makefile.am,
    usr/lib/byobu/.shutil, usr/share/byobu/profiles/common,
    usr/share/byobu/status/1, usr/share/byobu/status/2,
    usr/share/byobu/status/3, usr/share/byobu/status/4,
    usr/share/byobu/status/Makefile.am:
    - add shared configurations for status ordering
    - install symlinks to status ordering
    - add status script for status colors
    - move color function to shared utils
    - add stub for tmux color support
    - add byobu-statusd, daemon to cache and update status information in the
      run directory as the information expires
    - add byobu-status-print, script to concatenate status per ordered
      configuration
    - move byobu backend support below BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR determination
    - move status frequencies to a shared utility function
    - drop the backtick commands for all the individual status functions
    - add the backtick commands for the 4 quadrants of status
    - update the hardstatus line accordingly
  * usr/bin/byobu-select-session, usr/lib/byobu/.common,
    usr/lib/byobu/.constants, usr/lib/byobu/.dirs,
    usr/lib/byobu/Makefile.am, usr/share/byobu/profiles/common,
    usr/share/byobu/status/1, usr/share/byobu/status/2:
    - fix string bug in select session
    - re-add a couple of necessary backticks
    - update caption line to use new statusd cache
    - significantly reduce the numb...