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

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2024-06-17 15:09, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> 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].

Indeed, [2] refers to FHS v3.0 which does not include /var/db/. The OP 
seems to have referred to FHS v0.65 [3].

Andrius

> [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

[3] https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html