I recently set up a PPA on Launchpad for distributing my web application. Since it's a server-app, I need to put my data into /var/www/html which apparently is not wanted by Lintian ("dir-or-file-in-var-www").
So far, I accomplish the task via a postinst script, which copies the files after installation, but there has to be a more elegant way, isn't there?
There is not a more elegant solution. A postinstall-script is allowed under certain conditions, and your package seems to satisfy these conditions. From https://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-www.html:
As an exception, packages are permitted to create the
/var/wwwdirectory due to its past history as the default document root, but should at most copy over a default file in postinst for a new install. In this case, please add a Lintian override.
Please consult the rest of https://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-www.html as well.
