On 28 April 2018 at 21:34, Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote:
> do you have a patch please? > No patch, sorry. I don't really use the package myself. There was a report in BOINC forums that the latest package doesn't start and after investigating the problem I thought I'd report it myself to the bug tracker. I see the init script is using /var/lib/boinc-client, upstream moved to > /var/lib/boinc... > > I would prefer to stick to what upstream is using, shouldn't I just change > the init script > and maybe provide a symlink to the old location? > It's not that upstream moved to this or that. It's more about more or less everyone else uses /var/lib/boinc and Debian/Ubuntu/etc are the only ones using something else. Upstream doesn't really have a firm policy on data directory location. Just notes that Fedora and Debian disagree. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/UnixClientPackage I wouldn't mind if Debian moved to /var/lib/boinc to match everyone else if it's possible to make that change. Makes things more simple in the long run. For some reason I have always imagined that Debian uses different directory name to match the package name. Does Debian have some policies about directory names? -Juha
