On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:41:10PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 18:42:
> > I certainly agree that it's desirable to never have anything written
> > to /usr except by the package management system and to be able to keep
> > it read-only otherwise, but I don't find that the FHS mandates this.

> I found, indeed:

>   ``/usr is shareable, read-only data.''

> Could you raise back the severity?

No, because this data *is* both shareable and read-only; it is written to
only by certain admin operations.  The fact that these admin operations are
not governed by dpkg doesn't make it a policy violation.

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