Hello, On Thu, Jun 28 2018, David Bremner wrote: >>> 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. >>> > [...] By the way there are packages (gitolite3 is the one I know) > that create user home directories in /var for some package dedicated > user. I'm not sure how to distinguish cleanly between that case and > the human users case. I guess having a home directory in /home is a > reasonable proxy for being human. Do you think we could resolve this by adding "... except when that user was created by the package or a closely related package." ? -- Sean Whitton
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