Package: gitosis
Version: 0.2+20080419-2
Severity: serious

Hello,

gitosis’s postinst script creates the gitosis user, with $HOME located
in /var/cache/gitosis ; the Git repositories hosted by gitosis will
then be stored in this directory, along with the
gitosis configuration.

According to the FHS[1], « /var/cache is intended for cached data from
applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of
time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to
regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files
can be deleted without data loss. »

IMHO, neither the hosted repositories nor the gitosis config match
this definition.

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA

Bye,
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