On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:13:34PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > their init.d/ scripts. Case in point was clamav-daemon, which didn't start > > on boot, expecting /var/run/clamav/ to be already there. Same for virus-DB > > updater freshclam. > > They are buggy. They need to be fixed. I would be happy to provide patches > and NMU if that's what the problem is. OTOH, if the clamav-* maintainer
problem is, that fixes need to survive upgrades. > does not *want* to fix this bug because it is against what he believes is > right, then we shouldn't fight him, IMHO. It goes straight to the CTTE in > that case. likely > This agreement was made the Debian way (massive thread on d-devel), and the > outcome is: packages are not allowed to assume anything will remain in > ephemeral trees, and */run, and /tmp are now considered ephemeral. given the 'massive', I assume the point has been weighted enough. Perhaps some maint put that thread in their own ephemeral area and forgot about it :) > The reason was technical: It is much simpler and safer to add the required > logic to each package's initscripts than to try for anything generic. ok, assuming you want to wipe out */run and /tmp. I'm not fully convinced of that, though I didn't follow whole thread, only some spot due to issues/ bugrep. I'm fine either way, generally, provided that pkgs don't fail/break on next upgrade due to such divergent opinions: users shouldn't be involved. thanks -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
