On Monday, 19 December 2005 01:50, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Holger Levsen said: > > > So my question is simply: should packages begin using /srv now ? What > > > is the release teams opinion and decission on this ? (Steve commented > > > on IRC that it would be good to have this decission made by the team > > > and in an archived media.) > > > > I'm still patiently waiting for a reply... > > I am not pretending to speak for the release team, so take what I say > with a load of salt. My reading of /srv is that it is for the local > admin, so packages should not ship files in /srv. A reasonable thing > might be a script in the package, that creates an instance of something > (TFTboot, web instance, whatever) under /srv, but actually shipping the > files under /srv would be a no-no. My reading is that webpages don't belong to /var/www and in addition (quoting from FHS), "/srv ... _should be used as the default location for such data_ " (web pages served by the machine). So having the DocumentRoot of our default apache installation pointing to /var/www is a no-no-no. Best regards -- Isaac Clerencia at Warp Networks, http://www.warp.es Work: <isaac@warp.es> | Debian: <isaac@debian.org>
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