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

2018-07-02 Thread Ian Jackson
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'

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

2018-06-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
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

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

2018-06-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 10:23:17 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >> 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

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

2018-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories"): > Do you think we could resolve this by adding "... except when that user > was created by the package or a closely related package." ? Maybe the concept of an "unrelated&q

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

2018-06-29 Thread Sean Whitton
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

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

2018-06-28 Thread David Bremner
Sean Whitton writes: >> 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

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

2018-06-28 Thread Sean Whitton
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