diff --git a/debian/rougail.dirs b/debian/rougail.dirs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0309a572
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rougail.dirs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+/var/rougail/patches
+/var/rougail/templates
+/var/rougail/manifests
diff --git a/src/rougail/config.py b/src/rougail/config.py
index 485bd0ee..1bd51dcc 100644
--- a/src/rougail/config.py
+++ b/src/rougail/config.py
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ fichier de configuration pour rougail
 from os.path import join, isfile, abspath, dirname
 from pathlib import Path
 
-rougailroot = dirname(abspath(__file__))
-dtddir = join(rougailroot, 'data')
+rougailroot = /var/rougail 
+patch_dir = join(rougailroot, 'patches')
+manifests_dir = join(rougailroot, 'manifests')
+templates_dir = join(rougailroot, 'templates')
+dtddir = join(dirname(abspath(__file__)), 'data')
 dtdfilename = join(ddtdir, 'rougail.dtd')
 
 # chemin du répertoire source des fichiers templates