On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:38:21PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: tags -1 + help
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> thanks for this bug report.
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:04:56AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I'd tend to say that not removing the file on purge is correct,
> > but the whole situation looks rather underspecified.
> >
> > Is there any rationale why not removing files under /srv would
> > without a doubt be considered a bug?
> > If not, please don't flag this as an error.
>
> agreed, piuparts should not complain if stuff in /srv doesn't get removed.
>
> However, it *should* complain if stuff in /srv is being created, I don't think
> this is the case today. (Confirmation needed.)
>...
The footnote in the FHS even makes it clear that distributions are
allowed to add files there, but not to remove files:
[20] This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both
files initially installed by the distributor, and those added by the
administrator.
It is therefore a bug in piuparts to complain about packages adding
files there - this is permitted by current policy.
> cheers,
> Holger
cu
Adrian
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