Bug#44922: marked as done ([ACCEPTED 10/26/99] clarify policy on stuff in /var/local)
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From: "Juergen A. Erhard" <jae@ilk.de>
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Subject: [PROPOSAL] handling missing stuff in /var/local
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Package: debian-policy
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Add to section 3.1.2:
/usr/local is local admin territory. Whatever the local admin
does in or below /usr/local, must not affect the operation of even
parts of a package.
Thus, no package may depend on the existence of anything
below /usr/local, even if it created the directory itself. It
may not even depend on the existence of /usr/local.
The motivation for this proposal is found in bug #44682. I then
realized (poked by Edward Betts ;-) that policy is unclear on this...
it is allowed for a package to create dirs below /usr/local, but
policy is mum about what should happen when such dirs are removed
by the admin.
Comments welcome.
Of course, rephrasings are welcome to... ;-)
Bye, J
PS: I am not (yet) a maintainer... but I gathered from past
discussions on this that anyone can make a proposal, but only
maintainers can second. (I just now read proposal.text ... but
I propose this anyway... it's necessary, so sue me >;-)
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
These bugs have been fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0; changelog follows.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
Changes: debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
#45561, #42447, #48570)
* Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
* Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
* Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
directoried (closes: #41547)
* FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
* Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
* Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
* Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
* Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
* Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
* Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
* Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
package criteria (closes: #45318)
* Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
#41829)
* Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
* Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
* Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
* Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
* Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
* Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
* Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
#40766, #40767)
* Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
* Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
* packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
* The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
(closes: #17621)
* Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
#19179)
* Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
#41095)
* s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
* Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
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