On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:35:01AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Please reassign to the individual packages affected. > > I would, if I knew where to…
I refer to whatever package put files in /etc/opt. The behaviour of dpkg regarding directories is probably the only sensible one, but on the other hand, creating a directory required by FHS in postinst (like it's done for /mnt and /media) should be perfectly legitimate as well. If we know that /etc/opt is not owned by any essential package, and we know that dpkg will remove /etc/opt if you first install a package putting files there and then removing the package, it would follow that packages doing the non-standard thing of putting files in /etc/opt should additionally do the non-standard (but very simple) thing of restoring it in postrm after dpkg removes it. Otherwise you are essentially asking me to do things in base-files in a very specific way, which is not the only allowed way, just to maintain your non-standard /etc/opt. Thanks.
