>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

    Russ> This bug is a request to change the Policy requirement that
    Russ> /var/run and /var/lock be absolute symlinks (to /run and
    Russ> /run/lock, respectively), and instead be created as relative
    Russ> symlinks to ../run and ../run/lock. Debian has attempted to
    Russ> make this change in initscripts and base-files before but
    Russ> rolled it back because Policy requires symlinks that cross
    Russ> root file system directories to be relative links.


I have read your full analysis and I support the change with release
notes. I find the chroot behavior is more common these days than
filesystem relocation via symlinks.

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