> > Package: debian-policy > Version: 2.5.0.0 > > Recently on irc there was a complaint that some newly compiled programs now > use /var/mail in place of /var/spool/mail. > > This came up before and we had a nice big flamewar about it with the help of > the LSB and FHS people, trying to decide where to put the incoming > mailboxen. It was determined then that either location should be considered > acceptable, but for now at least both must exist---one a symlink to the > other. >
I maintain a pop daemon and indeed it would break if I did not take the time to hack the code before releasing it. So I just want to say yes to please make the needed symlinks and keep the move to a standards based file system going and sane.
