On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:30:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 7. April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > A single rmdir in every game using /var/games isn't that hard, > > especially since they have to remove the files from there. > > I agree and plan to file RC bugs on this. > > (There have been 24781 binary packages been successfully tested in sid and > squeeze atm, 369 have failures, of which eleven packages keep /var/games > around, of which 4 also keep other files in /var/games/* - seven more RC bugs > sound reasonable to me. Plus potentially a few more in packages not tested.) > > Or is RC too much? Or fine now?
Unless policy is changed to make clear that /var/games can be removed at any time, and thus that package cannot just ship /var/games in the deb and expect it to be available when running the postinst, or at any latter time, I have to object with this bug reports because this introduces a race condition. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
