Hi Russ, On Montag, 6. April 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > We'd then have a similar problem with any other /var directory that holds > files mostly created at runtime and only deleted on purge, such as > /var/log, except that the rest are always in existence.
According to the FHS the other 4 directories in the same category
as /var/games are /var/account, /var/crash, /var/mail and /var/yp.
> I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games
less cruft on disk, better overview when doing "ls /var", but yeah... that's
not really much :)
> and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding
> purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that would usually
> never be triggered).
Sounds like a job for debhelper/cdbs to me...
> My inclination would be to say that this behavior is
> fine and perhaps we should officially bless it somewhere.
I'd appreciate that, I like to follow documented procedures when adding
checks/ignores to piuparts and then run it on the archive ;)
regards,
Holger
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