Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> writes: > Unfortunately, Policy is not clear on where a system accounts' "home > directory" is to be placed. Thus, a maintainer trying to fix the "bug" > that a home directory was placed *gasp* in /home is risking to do it > wrong again when choosing between /etc/package(/home) and > /var/(lib|cache|spool)/package(/home).
It's going to depend considerably on the package, isn't it? I don't think Policy can make any one recommendation, although /var/lib works for many packages and fits the FHS requirements. > In quite a few packages, the system user's "home" directory might > accumulate dotfiles and/or ssh (keys|known_hosts) files, so this > decision is not quite easy to take. If those files are intended to be persistant, then either /etc/package or /var/lib/package are pretty much your only options. The semantics of the other locations you mention don't allow for those sorts of files. > Sorry, but I cannot suggest Policy language since I don't know how do to > things right and I still believe that /home is a valid place for home > directories. /home is definitely unacceptable for the reasons stated in the FHS, for the same reasons that /srv would be unacceptable (and for other reasons as well, such as the fact that /home is often an NFS-mounted file system or otherwise unavailable for package installation). QA is entirely correct on that score. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
