I think I should perhaps put on a flak jacket before suggesting this. Perhaps it'd be a good idea to list the directories which we intend to support on a read-only root, and have packages migrate file permissions for files installed in these directories to read-only. Noncompliant packages would then be easy to detect, and compliant packages which had problems should fail during testing. If this raised file-location issues, they could then be dealt with my debian-devel discussion before the packages were uploaded to be placed in the distribution.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
