Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Michael Gilbert writes ("Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories"):
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >>     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.
> 
> Would it be clearer to say "programs and shell scripts" to explicitly
> permit wrapper scripts §9.9 written by the maintainer?

I think shell scripts are programs.

Ian.

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