On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:38:04AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
IMHO the packaging guidelines are too lax. The harder stance in review
guidelines helped clean up a lot of historical directory ownership
mess no one was looking at.
In particular I object to :
> Another exception for directory ownership in packages is when there is
> no clear dependency hierarchy.
In that case directories should be created by generic packages like
filesystem (not necessarily the filesystem package itseld). There's
just no excuse for installing objects with no identified security
policy on user systems.
It is not always worth creating a filesystem package for these cases.
Simply having more than one package own the directory is simpler, and
although not perfect, acceptable.
It doesn't mean that things shouldn't be fixed when they need to, but in
some simple case it isn't needed to be so strict.
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Pat