control: tag 840235 + confirmed On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 15:20:25 -0400 David Steele <ste...@debian.org> wrote: > Debian Policy does not support blanket rejects based on the Lintian > dir-or-file-in-etc-opt tag. > The tag should be removed from the "fatal" list at > https://ftp-master.debian.org/static/lintian.tags. > > Rationale > > The Debian Policy has little to say about opt, except that the FHS > must be followed. There > is a stated ban concerning /usr/local, but nothing specific about opt. > > The FHS explicitly states that distributions MAY place files under > /opt (with narrow exceptions > outside of the /etc/opt tree), and that /etc/opt is there to support > such files, as long as the > local admin is given an option to bail.
Seems sensible, I support the removal. Cheers, Luke Faraone FTP Assistant
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