Package: tvtime
Version: 1.0.2-9
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed that your package creates files in
/root. From the attached log (scroll to the bottom):

0m34.1s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
  /root/.tvtime/         not owned

Creating stuff in /root is a FHS and policy violation. (And of course
these files should not be deleted by maintainer scripts.)
But it is also an indication that the package operation may depend on
root's .tvtime configuration (and package installation might even fail if
that configuration is broken). That would be a case for "configuration
files not in /etc".

This might also be the cause for #445192 where a users ~/.tvtime/ is
owned by root:root - probably depending on how the user switched to root.

See #689806 for a similar issue with /root/.gnupg/ and how this was
solved there.


Cheers,

Andreas

Attachment: tvtime_1.0.2-9.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

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