tags 240092 patch thanks What are the plans to fix address this proposal? Debian is very big on policy and FHS-compliance, and then its most core piece of software doesn't really fit into the system properly, and in 5+ years, noone even cared enough to even comment?
It seems that dpkg is designed to support non-standard --admindir settings. It's also quite likely that that feature is in use. I can thus only think of two ways to really address the issue: 1. move all lockfiles to admindir/lock/, which can be a symlink to /var/lock/dpkg 2. use a lockdir at /var/lock/dpkg unless --admindir is specified explicitly, in which case it could heuristically check if admindir/../../lock/dpkg existed and use that, else fall back to current method. Thoughts? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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