Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:34, you wrote: >> Yes, and if you ship files in /srv, then your package is creating and >> insisting upon a particular structure in /srv. Even if the binaries in >> the package don't insist, the *package* is insisting. > Yup

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:34, you wrote: > Yes, and if you ship files in /srv, then your package is creating and > insisting upon a particular structure in /srv. Even if the binaries in > the package don't insist, the *package* is insisting. Yup. That's a structure my package created. Ob

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:35, you wrote: >> How can that be reconciled with: >> >> The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as >> there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method >> for struc

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:35, you wrote: > How can that be reconciled with: > > The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as > there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method > for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote: >> By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be >> installing files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local >> administrator for local data. The error message may not be accurate, >> b

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote: > By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be installing > files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local administrator for > local data. The error message may not be accurate, but it looks to me > like this still should be

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > package: lintian > version: 1.23.22 > Hi, > the new version of policy mandates FHS 2.3, which requires /srv, so this > is clearly no error :-) By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be installing files into /srv, since /srv is res

Bug#379176: "E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/" is policy not an error

2006-07-21 Thread Holger Levsen
package: lintian version: 1.23.22 Hi, the new version of policy mandates FHS 2.3, which requires /srv, so this is clearly no error :-) regards, Holger pgpKFlUCvbUSX.pgp Description: PGP signature