Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:08:40AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> writes:
> > In quite a few packages, the system user's "home" directory might
> > accumulate dotfiles and/or ssh (keys|known_hosts) files, so this
> > decision is not quite easy to take.
>
> If those files are intended to be persistant, then either /etc/package or
> /var/lib/package are pretty much your only options. The semantics of the
> other locations you mention don't allow for those sorts of files.
/var/lib/package cannot be used as ssh keys can be considered
configuration data which is explicitly forbidden for /var/lib.
> > Sorry, but I cannot suggest Policy language since I don't know how do to
> > things right and I still believe that /home is a valid place for home
> > directories.
>
> /home is definitely unacceptable for the reasons stated in the FHS,
Please clarify this in policy.
Greetings
Marc
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