Bug#470403: lintian: /var/www
Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
> please issue an E:, or at least W:, on packages having files or links in
> /var/www.
>
> Its a standard reject for me in NEW, with a reason similar to
>
> +++---+++
> rejected, please remove the var/www link to usr/share. Its a policy/fhs
> violation to have stuff there *and* it actually doesn't work on many
> systems. Its wrong to assume var/www is ok. The better way is to setup
> httpd config snippets for the most common httpds we have that enable the
> /something to go somewhere sane. See about all the other packages that have
> such stuff how to do it, please
> +++---+++
>
> but you might want some better english for it :)
Wow, there's a fascinating selection of stuff in the archive that installs
files under there. I particularly like dart-server.
Will do. Thanks!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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