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[Jonathan Marsden <661963@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, not really.  Which home directory ~ did you have in mind?  Linux is
a multiuser system.

Packages cannot add files to or mess with individual user's home
directories during their installation.  Which user or users should
xdemorse do this to?  All users on the system??

Possibilities:

 (1) It might in theory be possible to create a systemwide config file
called say /etc/xdemorserc and have the program read that if no per-user
file existed, but then default xdemorse behaviour would be rather
different from the upstream software.

 (2) In theory, xdemorse might possibly be enhanced to create a default
~/.xdemorserc when run, if one does not already exist, but again, that's
a significant change in behaviour.

I think either of those options would be better implemented by the
upstream author(s) of xdemorse rather than in Ubuntu-specific packaging.

At present, the supplied example configuration file is there for you.
So all you need to do is

  cp /usr/share/doc/xdemorse/xdemorserc ~/.xdemorserc

and edit that as necessary.  Given the rather specialized nature of
xdemorse itself, I think it's a bit difficult to argue that this is too
much to ask of the technically inclined users it is intended for.  But
if you disagree, I suggest that the place to ask for more automated or
system-wide initial configuration of xdemorse would probably be the
xdemorse authors, rather than Ubuntu packagers.  This is in essence an
enhancement request, rather than a bug report.

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xdemorse missing...everything.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661963
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Status in “xdemorse” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xdemorse

No man entry, no HTML or txt docs anywhere, no license, & the worst offender, no default .xdemorserc file, rendering the program inoperable.  Either fix the package or remove it from the repository.

Ubuntu 10.10
xdemorse 1.3-5