From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:53:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Why /var/cache/git?
Message-ID: <20101028155302.11273.qmail@17f1bb531c10eb.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viq0ohknn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30:04AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:
> > Hi, it's also not my preference, but Debian adheres to the FHS.
> > Unfortunately /var/git is not allowed by the FHS, so a different
> > location must be chosen for Debian.
> 
> It seems that /var/lib/ seems to be more appropriate place to store
> persistent database-y stuff. I see e.g. /var/lib/postgresql there.

I agree and re-opened
 http://bugs.debian.org/483788

Regards, Gerrit.