GC postinst should not modify configuration files owned by other packages

[Luke Faraone]

debian/posinst contains these lines:
    # We need to update the xdg-dirs to add a
    # new default directory for projects
    if ! grep -q '^PROJECTS=' /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults; then
      echo '# Added by groundcontrol' >> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
      echo 'PROJECTS=Projects' >> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
    fi;

This has to be removed, of course, but there are three things we can do from here: (from least to most work)

 1) Do nothing, and leave the file unchanged
 2) Add a maintainer script for xdg-user-dirs giving us the ability to modify the configuration file
 3) Get the stanza added to the configuration file by default

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

If the xdg/user-dirs.defaults is left unchanged then Ground Control will assume that it is always deactivated.

It will never work.

We need someone to solve this problem, because this is the best I could come up with. If it's not allowed, then I'm all out of ideas and a real MOTU should let us know what the right way of doing this is.