[DRE-maint] Bug#814476: gitlab writes into /usr/share/gitlab during operation

[Johannes Schauer]

Package: gitlab
Version: 8.4.3+dfsg-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.1

Hi,

as per Debian policy §9.1.1, packages must comply with the FHS 2.3 but
gitlab is writing log files to /usr/share/gitlab/log/ which violates
chapter 4 of the FHS. Quote:

"/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable,
read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various
FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is
host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere."

this requirement is currently violated by gitlab.

No wonder I couldn't figure out where the log files were :D

Log files should go into /var/log/gitlab

Thanks!

cheers, josch