Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:34, you wrote:
>> Yes, and if you ship files in /srv, then your package is creating and >> insisting upon a particular structure in /srv. Even if the binaries in >> the package don't insist, the *package* is insisting. > Yup. That's a structure my package created. Obviously I can depend on > that. And the FHS says that you're not allowed to do that. So... lintian is correct, I think. >> Certainly, I can see shipping configuration that points to /srv for >> local data by default, and even a postinst that creates an initial >> structure in /srv for the package if this is the first install, but >> putting the files directly in the package seems to me to be forcing >> more structure than is allowed here. > So you agree that the lintian error is wrong :) None of those things would trigger a lintian error. :) >> Maybe we should take this to debian-policy and see what other folks >> think? > Sure. Go ahead. And thanks for caring! Okay, will do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
