Bug#825047: developers-reference: Lintian contradicts suggestion in maintainer scripts best practices

2016-05-22 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.17 Severity: normal I have a package with a postrm script that has a line like [ -x /usr/bin/ucf ] && ucf --purge /etc/default/gridengine which incurs the following lintian warning: W: gridengine-common: command-with-path-in-maintainer-script postrm:31

Bug#775318: debian-policy: Using /srv instead of /var/lib for served user-level data

2015-01-15 Thread Afif Elghraoui
On الثلاثاء 13 كانون الثاني 2015 22:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Yes, you're entirely right -- this is weird and kind of contradictory and it's hard to figure out just what this was supposed to mean. What I spelled out is what we arrived at in previous discussion, but there may be other possible int

Bug#775318: debian-policy: Using /srv instead of /var/lib for served user-level data

2015-01-13 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Forgot to reply-all and include the bug address... رسالة ممرّرة الموضوع: Re: Bug#775318: debian-policy: Using /srv instead of /var/lib for served user-level data التاريخ:Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:21:30 -0800 مِن:Afif Elghraoui إلى:Russ Allbery On الثلاثاء 13

Bug#775318: debian-policy: Using /srv instead of /var/lib for served user-level data

2015-01-13 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hello, On الثلاثاء 13 كانون الثاني 2015 19:50, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm afraid that you're misreading the FHS. It actually*prohibits* the distribution from doing what you want and using /srv by default. This is the important part of the /srv description for this purpose: The methodology

Bug#775318: debian-policy: Using /srv instead of /var/lib for served user-level data

2015-01-13 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I wanted to separate user-level data (for special RAID, backups, encryption and such) from system data on my machine, so I targeted /home and /srv. I found out that data managed by system services are being stored in /var/lib/ when I