On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> Would it be appropriate to file RC bugs against all the packages >>> shipping anything in /var/run, /var/lock or /run? >>> >> No, there's nothing wrong with that. >> >> Cheers, >> Julien > > Lintian (and myself) do not agree with you. Lintian > considers it a "Serious" problem. And so does the policy > manual in which you can read: > > "Packages must not include files or directories under /run, > or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths."
The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does this; although it is pretty pointless since those files will be gone after reboot. So, even though policy says "must not", it's not really a problem in practice, so important is probably a more appropriate severity at this point in the release process. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANTw=MO8SnuhQBRHmw9mQke8GZv0YTVNrz-mpcPgq-=bjgy...@mail.gmail.com
