Package: smokeping
Version: 2.3.6-3
Severity: important

As reported  by current versions of lintian (tag "dir-or-file-in-var-www"):

    Debian packages should not install files under /var/www. This is not
    one of the /var directories in the File Hierarchy Standard and is
    under the control of the local administrator. Packages should not
    assume that it is the document root for a web server; it is very
    common for users to change the default document root and packages
    should not assume that users will keep any particular setting.

    Packages that want to make files available via an installed web
    server should instead put instructions for the local administrator
    in a README.Debian file and ideally include configuration fragments
    for common web servers such as Apache.

    As an exception, packages are permitted to create the /var/www
    directory due to its past history as the default document root, but
    should at most copy over a default file in postinst for a new install.

    Refer to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (The /var Hierarchy) for details.

This should definitely be fixed for squeeze.
-- 
Niko Tyni   nt...@debian.org



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