[Dsc-maintainers] Bug#668740: Bug#668740: dsc-statistics-{collector, presenter}: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8) violating FHS (policy 9.1) too

[Marc Haber]

severity #668740 normal
thanks

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:03:22AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 0m26.0s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
>   /home/Debian-dsc-statistics	 not owned

This is very obviously the home directory of the user.

Please point me to the part of policy where policy states the place to
put a user's home directory if it is needed, for example to place an
.ssh/authorized_keys file.

> As putting files into /home is also a violation of
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1.2

That part of the FHS is about /usr/local, not /home.

> You probably want to use something like
>   adduser --system ...

You probably want to read the maintainer scripts of packages you're
filing bugs on. I know that I cannot demand that you're only filing
bugs on packages you care for and have some basic familiarity with.

Slightly annoyed.

Greetings
Marc

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