Hi Ignace, On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:29:43PM +0100, Ignace Mouzannar wrote: > > According to the FHS, /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and > > internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by > > users or shell scripts, but not variable state information. Such data > > must go into /var/lib/. > > > > This is a File Hierachy Standard and therefore also a Debian Policy > > violation. > > I followed what was said in the Debian's Webapps Policy Manual [1] > where it says: > > | User uploaded content > | A unique subdirectory of /usr/lib/PACKAGE
Oh. Hmmm, since /usr/lib/ shows up twice in the list on [1], this could be a yet unnoticed cut & paste error as it doesn't seem to make much sense. Will check it and possibly report it as bug against whatever package is appropriate. [1] http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-issues.html > But you are _absolutely_ right about this violating the FHS. :-) > > !531 Z19 ?0 L1 r...@metisse:ttyp2 (-zsh) 17:21:13 [~] # ls -alF > > /usr/lib/iptotal > > total 274 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 2009-11-25 17:18 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x 443 root root 123392 2009-11-25 17:20 ../ > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 150520 2009-11-25 17:18 iptotal.rrd > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 65 2009-11-25 17:18 result.txt > > !532 Z20 ?0 L1 r...@metisse:ttyp2 (-zsh) 17:21:40 [~] # > > It is normal that these files are not deleted as they are created & > updated by the binary itself (not the .deb package). Yeah, sure. It's also no problem if data directories in /var/ are left over after uninstalling... > I will be uploading a new release correcting this very soon. Cool. Thanks for the prompt response. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org, a...@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
