Package: debian-policy Version: 3.0.1.1 Severity: normal Add to section 3.1.2:
/usr/local is local admin territory. Whatever the local admin does in or below /usr/local, must not affect the operation of even parts of a package. Thus, no package may depend on the existence of anything below /usr/local, even if it created the directory itself. It may not even depend on the existence of /usr/local. The motivation for this proposal is found in bug #44682. I then realized (poked by Edward Betts ;-) that policy is unclear on this... it is allowed for a package to create dirs below /usr/local, but policy is mum about what should happen when such dirs are removed by the admin. Comments welcome. Of course, rephrasings are welcome to... ;-) Bye, J PS: I am not (yet) a maintainer... but I gathered from past discussions on this that anyone can make a proposal, but only maintainers can second. (I just now read proposal.text ... but I propose this anyway... it's necessary, so sue me >;-) -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux sanctum 2.2.12 #1 Mon Sep 6 05:43:29 CEST 1999 i686
