Bug#618888: This report is questionable

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

thanks for cc:ing me, I'm not subscribed to this bug.

On Montag, 21. März 2011, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> I do not agree about this report. The /home/ftp location
> is the home of the traditional 'ftp' anonymous user and
> removing it or any of the (possibly) custom files there
> is out of question, even at purge time IMHO.

Yes, removing files there is out of the question _as is_ putting files there 
in the first place.

Please read the links I gave you, this is mandated by the File Hierarchy 
Standard, which is mandated by Debian policy.

> That said, I could simply remove completely the management
> of a generic anonymous account, leaving to admin all duties about
> that. That would render piuparts happy, and some admins too
> possibly. Maybe some other admins won't appreciate the
> change, who knows?

make /var/lib/ftp the home directory of that user? In any case, don't mess 
with /home.

> I think you are pointing only about that, and not the log
> files of course.

You're wrong. Of course, the logfiles should be deleted on purge, as mandated 
by Debian policy.


cheers,
	Holger
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