Bug#767839: debian-policy: Linking documentation of arch:any package to arch:all

2015-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Robert Luberda wrote: > Please explicitly state in the Policy if linking > /usr/share/doc/arch:any_package to ../arch:all_package > (where arch:any_package and arch:all_package come > from the same source package) is allowed or not. It currently is not allowed. [...] > In my opinion, as

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

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

2015-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Afif Elghraoui writes: > 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 expected them to be in /srv and

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 Russ Allbery
Afif Elghraoui writes: > Thanks for the clarification-- I mistakenly thought this meant that the > distribution could define its own directory structure there. Yeah, I totally understand how you could get that impression. Unfortunately, the FHS isn't horribly clear on who the actors are at vario

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 ك