Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.
On 26 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> The question is, "who owns /usr/src, Debian or the local sysadmin?"
I'm not the official word on this but I think Debian "owns" everything but
/usr/local (in which it can only make a directory). There are exceptions
if your directory isn't in the file system standard (don't remember the
correct abreviation). However, I recently saw a nice behaviour from a
Sun. Before clobbering a file that Sun didn't "own" (in another package),
it prompted me on what it was about to do, by asking if I wanted to
clobber them. This would be a nice addition in dpkg/deity.
Thanks,
Brandon
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