On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 01:23:32PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > References > ---------------- > [...] > - https://bugs.debian.org/93390
Are you serious? Such bug was in 2001-04-10, but in 2001-11-09 I modified base-files to provide the opt directories, this is from the changelog: base-files (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=low * Created /opt, /etc/opt and /var/opt in the first install. They are mentioned in FHS 2.1 and required in FHS 2.2 (Closes: #118505). You can check that those directories exist in any newly installed Debian system. Creating directories in the postinst is a completely acceptable way to provide FHS compliance, and in fact, it is sometimes necessary to accomodate for mount points and similar things, see this changelog entry for example: base-files (7.7) unstable; urgency=low * The directory /mnt is not included inside base-files.deb anymore. Instead, it is created by postinst the very first time base-files is installed (by debootstrap), or when upgrading from an earlier base-files version. This should make the usual upgrade at every point release to work even if /mnt is a stale mount point. Closes: #763405. So, to summarize again: No, this is not a bug in base-files. I'm very sorry that this implementation detail causes trouble for you, but I firmly believe that whatever problem you have with it does not require a modification in base-files to be solved, or a restriction in the freedom to remove a directory when you don't need it. Can we reassing this already, please? Thanks.