Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: >> OK. Something like this? >> >> Packages must not contain files in /home, and packages' maintainer >> scripts must not write to users' home directories. The programs in >> those packages may create directory hierarchies as described in >> ยง3.8.3 "Home Directory Specifications and Conventions" when run by >> a user. >> >> I'm not so sure whether this belongs in the FHS section? > > Indeed. I thought that the requirement that packages don't contain > files in /home was in Policy already, but it seems that it is not. >
> So filing as a separate bug. > >> I think it's a point about how our packages are required to behave, >> rather than about the directories that can exist and their >> purposes. The directory hierarchies are still the same, regardless of >> how they're created. > > The wording of FHS is not about directories that can exist -- it says > that distributions "can create" or "may create" the dirs. That's what > we want to forbid. By the way there are packages (gitolite3 is the one I know) that create user home directories in /var for some package dedicated user. I'm not sure how to distinguish cleanly between that case and the human users case. I guess having a home directory in /home is a reasonable proxy for being human. d
