Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I know we're still waiting for Gerrit to be available before proceding much
> further with this, but I wanted to lay out my own point-by-point analysis of
> the reasons given for rejection to help us start to work out what the
> current consensus is regarding which issues should or shouldn't be blockers.
I agree with everything you said except one point you misunderstood IMO:
> > - Lots of symlinks in /var/lib/qmail/bin going to /usr/bin/ and/or
> > /usr/sbin. This is at least sick, if not again an FHS
> > violation. var/lib is for "Variable state information", not binaries
> > or links to them.
>
> It is a violation of Policy's requirements regarding the FHS.
>
> 9.1.1. File system Structure
> ----------------------------
>
> The location of all installed files and directories must comply with
> the File system Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.3, with the
> exceptions noted below, and except where doing so would violate other
> terms of Debian Policy.
>
> The files must be installed in /usr, not just symlinked from /usr.
I understood that they are installed in /usr but that symlinks are
installed in /var, probably because Qmail expect them to be below
/var/lib/qmail.
While not nice and ideal, I believe it's an acceptable compromise if
upstream doesn't want to fix the software to look in different
directories.
A quick check on the package confirms this:
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-08-28 15:23 ./var/lib/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -> /usr/bin
/qmail-inject
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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