Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Dear all,
the "base system" is defined in section 3.7 (chapter 3 describes binary packages). It consists of packages of priorities "required" and "important", and these priorities are defined in section 2.5 (chapter 2 describes the Debian archive). The Policy contains the following additional statements about the base system. The system-wide mail directory is <file>/var/mail</file>. This directory is part of the base system and should not be owned by any particular mail agents. The Debian base system provides the <prgn>tempfile</prgn> and <prgn>mktemp</prgn> utilities for use by scripts for this purpose. If a package needs any special device files that are not included in the base system, it must call <prgn>MAKEDEV</prgn> in the <prgn>postinst</prgn> script, after notifying the user. <footnote> The Debian base system already provides an editor and a pager program. </footnote> The mail spool is part of the base system and not part of the MTA package. I filed this bug as a reminder to try to consolidate the definition of the "base system" in Policy version 4. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
