Package: lintian Version: 2.5.111 Severity: wishlist Hi,
debian introduced /run a couple of releases ago and nowadays /var/run is merely a symlink pointing to /run. I would consider it best practice nowadays that packages use /run directly instead of /var/run and would therefor like to see a check added to lintian which warns if it finds PIDFile=/var/run in a systemd .service file. Lintian should suggest that /run should be used directly instead. As a related data point: Since debhelper compat level 11, runstatedir defaults to /run There are quite packages which still use /var/run [1], and while discussing this on #debian-systemd it was suggested that this warning should only be prio pedantic or at most info for the time being. Thanks for considering, Michael https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=PIDFile%3D%2Fvar%2Frun&perpkg=1 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-7 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.2+test3 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-8 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.74+repack-1+b1 ii man-db 2.8.4-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.0-3 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information
