Bug#933867: axmail: please use /var/ax25 not /var/lib/ax25
This bug has been on my peripheral vision for a wee while, I’ll have a prod at it tomorrow night and get it uploaded. At least now I don’t need to check uronode too!
Cheers,
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Hibby
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> On 4 Aug 2019, at 18:33, Iain Learmonth <irl@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On 04/08/2019 16:59, Christoph Berg wrote:
>> Isn't that moving into the wrong direction, FHS-wise?
>
> Yes, but I think that if someone really disagrees here then I would want
> tech-ctte to rule on it or something.
>
> Changing all the other packages is going to use up a lot of time that
> could be used instead for improving the technical quality of the
> packages through testing, bug squashing and documentation instead of
> chasing down bugs triggered by moving the whole folder structure.
>
> All the other packages use /var/ax25 and have for *decades*. Custom
> software people build is expecting /var/ax25.
>
>> But judging from the file names, these look like they should be in
>> /usr/share instead.
>
> The goal of the bug is to remove the last of /var/lib/ax25 from the
> archive, if the files move to /usr/share then that is also fine with me.
> (It does look to be a better place for them, but I don't know what they
> do or why they are there, maybe there is good reason.)
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
>
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