limit package debconf severity 636621 minor thanks Quoting fhs-2.3
/var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between invocations of the application and rebooting the system. Files located under /var/cache may be expired in an application specific manner, by the system administrator, or both. The application must always be able to recover from manual deletion of these files (generally because of a disk space shortage). No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache directories. The accepted interpretation of the FHS distinguishes normal files from directories. In particular it is not unusual for directories under /var/cache to be shipped by a package and owned by a user or group other than root. Such directories cannot by design be recreated on demand. This is not a policy violation. Downgrading accordingly but leaving open as Joey may want to work around this anyway since debconf is one of the packages that is in a position to handle this. -- Edward Allcutt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org