On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:42:29PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Following FHS 3.0 is required by Debian Policy, and it says that "no > program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv > existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv". > So if I understand the situation correctly, leaving the package to > depend on filesystem path /srv/shiny-server is a violation of Debian > Policy and needs to be fixed, This was the whole point of my email, and it is the reason I started this email thread in the first place. I would have gone with installing it in /srv w/o seeking advice if it were not a violation. > either by avoiding that code (installing > it only as example files) or patching, or convincing upstream to change > default path. Yes, this was discussed in just the previous conversation (w/ me and wookey) I am looking for more opinions. Essentially if someone has a techincal way/solution to bypass this; or if someone on the list has had experience of working on a package that had similar reqs as shiny-server, it'd be nice to know what they did for their package. Best, Nilesh
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