On Dec 12, 2003, at 20:50, Henning Makholm wrote:
That is not true. The program *being packaged* is allowed to write to /etc as part of its normal operation. Apart form programs whose *task* is to change things in /etc (visudo, update-*) the most well-known cases are ifupdown and mount.
mount is a specific exception to the FHS, ifupdown is a bug[0]. We had a very, very long flamewar on -devel about this, as I'm sure you're aware.
I can't read the URL --- I'm offline at the moment --- but why not /var? And why ask on -legal? [0] Though one without a agreeable solution, it seems.