Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote: By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be installing files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local administrator for local data. The error message may not be accurate, but it looks to me like this still should be an

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote: By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be installing files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local administrator for local data. The error message may not be accurate, but it

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:35, you wrote: How can that be reconciled with: The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp,

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:35, you wrote: How can that be reconciled with: The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method for structuring data

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, 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.

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
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