debian packages quality

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GSM+GPRS Radio Access Network Node

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debian packages quality #6

Open zabbal opened 10 years ago

zabbal commented 10 years ago

Are there any plans to make something about it? It's beyond horrible at the moment: lintian complains do not even fit into screen. The location of files violates every single part of FHS, the creation of hardcoded directory (!) in /home (!!!) is direct security risk, permissions are wrong on almost every single file...

Ideally I'd love to see OpenBTS available directly from Debian/Ubuntu repositories but pushing for that with existing packages is plain embarrassing.

oleyka commented 9 years ago

Yes, we are working on getting this resolved. I agree with every point you made.

zabbal commented 9 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard - this might be of great help (pay special attention to notes about /run directory).

Note: the recent openbts-umts release makes exactly the same error of introducing massive incompatibilities and meaningless work for package maintainers.