Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Might be clearer to make it a simple, self-contained normative
>> requirement --- e.g., imitating 2361862a ("New Breaks dependency
>> field"):
>>
>> Packages must not assume the <file>/run</file> directory
>> exists or is usable without a dependency on <tt>initscripts
>> (>= 2.88dsf-13.3)</tt> until the stable release of Debian
>> supports <file>/run</file>.
>>
>> I think a new upgrading-checklist item attached to the next policy
>> version would work even better, since packagers that already made a
>> mistake would notice while looking over the new entries.
> Sure. Please find an updated patch attached which includes these
> changes.
Thanks, seconded. Which makes three, so applied for the next release
(which I will make probably as soon as the symbols documentation patch is
finally merged).
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