Re: should packages begin using /srv ?
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Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
This is also my take on the situation.
I wouldn't have an objection to symlinks for example data
(e.g. /srv/www->/usr/share/doc/webserver/example, if /srv/www does not
exist) but the data under /srv should only be user data.
Regards,
Roger
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