Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.4.2 Hello, On Thu, Jun 28 2018, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 at 21:05:07 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: >> 1. FHS 3.0 allows distributions to create directory hierarchies >> under >> user's home directories conforming to the XDG Base Directories or >> the GLib conventions on user directory contents. >> >> We don't permit packages to install to home directories or >> maintscripts to touch home directories, so maybe we need to add >> an exception saying that packages can't actually do this (of >> course, programs installed by those packages can do it). > > OK. Something like this? > > Packages must not contain files in /home, and packages' maintainer > scripts must not write to users' home directories. The programs in > those packages may create directory hierarchies as described in > §3.8.3 "Home Directory Specifications and Conventions" when run by > a user. > > I'm not so sure whether this belongs in the FHS section? Indeed. I thought that the requirement that packages don't contain files in /home was in Policy already, but it seems that it is not. So filing as a separate bug. > I think it's a point about how our packages are required to behave, > rather than about the directories that can exist and their > purposes. The directory hierarchies are still the same, regardless of > how they're created. The wording of FHS is not about directories that can exist -- it says that distributions "can create" or "may create" the dirs. That's what we want to forbid. -- Sean Whitton
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