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Bug#1006482: lintian: non-standard-dir-in-var var/db/



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On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 10:07:32 +0200 Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> wrote:
> Lintian incorrectly reports /var/db/ as non-standard-dir-in-var.
> 
> <https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/var.html>
> 
> /var/db
>     Data bank store.

Debian follows the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) version 3.0 (as per
[2]), and /var/db is not listed as a standard directory in the FHS document[1].

Kind regards,
--
Maytham Alsudany
Debian Maintainer
 maytham @ OFTC

[1]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05.html
[2]: "The location of all files and directories must comply with the Filesystem
      Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 3.0[...]"
     https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#file-system-structure

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