Package: mediawiki Version: 1:1.14.0-1 Severity: normal
The Debian MediaWiki package sets up extensions to be installed in /var/lib. According to the FHS, /var/lib holds Variable state information: """ This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application or the system. State information is data that programs modify while they run, and that pertains to one specific host. Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's operation. State information is generally used to preserve the condition of an application (or a group of inter-related applications) between invocations and between different instances of the same application. State information should generally remain valid after a reboot, should not be logging output, and should not be spooled data. """ A more fitting location would be /usr/lib, as it is used for libraries of programming and packages. Seeing that the extensions are more like libraries for the MediaWiki package, and that they are most likely installed by the local administrator and not the package management system (with the exception of the mediawiki-extensions package, which installs to /etc/mediawiki-extensions anyway), a more FHS compliant location would be /usr/local/lib. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
