On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:27:09PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Josh Triplett: > > apparmor ships /var/cache/apparmor/CACHEDIR.TAG directly in the binary > > package. Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache; the > > system administrator is free to delete such files or directories at any > > time. > > Just curious (since I agree with your conclusions): where does > "Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache" come from?
At the moment, general tribal knowledge that hasn't yet been written down somewhere. I've submitted a debian-policy patch to document it. - Josh Triplett