Package: lurker Version: 2.3-5+b1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 9.1.1
As of 2.3-1 the Debian package of lurker unfortunately started violating the FHS, because it moved its HTML generation output to /usr/share/lurker/www. According to the FHS[1] /usr must not be written to in normal operations. I discovered this whilst migrating a lurker installation to a new host. As far as I can tell, this is a genuine cache, and so I rsynced /usr/share/lurker/www/ to /var/cache/lurker/www/ and updated the config file reference, and everything still worked. Fixing this in the package would also involve cleaning up any left-over cache in /usr/share/lurker/www. It's probably not safe to do this in an automated way, so a similar news item as the one used in 2.3-1 would be needed. [1] <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY> -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lurker depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-10+deb8u7 ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-10+deb8u7 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libmimelib1c2a 5:1.1.4-2 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii lighttpd [httpd-cgi] 1.4.35-4+deb8u1 ii passwd 1:4.2-3+deb8u1 ii ucf 3.0030 ii xsltproc 1.1.28-2+deb8u2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 lurker recommends no packages. Versions of packages lurker suggests: ii gnupg 1.4.18-7+deb8u3 ii mailman 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lurker/apache.conf 4c1675809ae49b7e0fe08dcca45f00f0 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/lurker/apache.conf 4c1675809ae49b7e0fe08dcca45f00f0' /etc/lurker/lurker.conf.local changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded
