"Maarten L. Hekkelman" <[email protected]> writes: > I've read the specs for /var/ in the Debian Policy. That's why I came > up with /var/cache, it seems to match my requirements exactly.
Sure, but nothing (besides dpkg) is supposed to modify files packages ship. (Configuration files under /etc are a special case.) Best practice would probably be to ship an empty directory under /var/cache, ship the stock dictionary in /usr/lib/libcifpp or /usr/share/libcifpp as appropriate (depending on whether it varies by architecture), and have your postinst script copy the stock dictionary into the /var/cache directory as needed. Also, please ensure that your cron job requires explicit opt-in. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected]
