also sprach Guillem Jover <[email protected]> [2011.08.19.1425 +0200]:
> I've pondered about this bug report for some time now, and I don't
> really see the point in it. Conformance for conformance sake? What's
> gained by moving the lock files to /var/lock?

I think my main driver back then was that /var/lock was auto-ignored
by backup software, and I've run into the problem that after
a restore, I had to manually remove the lockfile, since it was
included in the backup.

Wontfix is fine by me. Thank you for considering this old bug!

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