[Pkg-freevo-maint] Bug#607921: freevo: (unowned) files in /home (after purge (policy 6.8))

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Mon Dec 27 15:48:44 UTC 2010


user release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
usertag 607921 squeeze-will-remove
kthxbye

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:46:16 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:

> If your package had only left files in /var/log after purge, I would have 
> filed this as important. But as your package creates /home/freevo (WTF?!), 
> I'm filing this as it is.
> 
> See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#HOMEUSERHOMEDIRECTORIES 
> "/home is a fairly standard concept, but it is clearly a site-specific 
> filesystem. The setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program 
> should rely on this location."
> 
I'll remove freevo from squeeze in a few days if this doesn't get fixed.

Cheers,
Julien
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