Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One side of the argument is that /srv is specified in the FHS and footnote > [20] implicitly gives permission for the distribution to install files in > it, so lintian shouldn't complain and should be happy with files installed > in /srv by the package. It is, after all, the FHS-mandated location for > certain types of data. > > The other side (disclosure: this is my personal opinion) is that the > second-to-last sentence of the second paragraph argues strongly against > shipping files in /srv as part of the package. By doing so, the package > is imposing structure on /srv; if the local administrator wants a > different structure, it's difficult for them to maintain that change.
I tend to think that the footnote does not give implicit permission to *ship* files in the package. Instead, a post-installation script or simply a service startup script might look at some configuration file, thus learn the structure of /srv that the local admin chose, and create files there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
