On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: >> 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. > > I dont understand, can you please explain what race condition you mean? How about this: Game a gets installed and ships /var/games Game b gets installed and ships /var/games Game a gets purged and removes /var/games User starts game b and gets a high score Game b tries to save the high score but fails because /var/games doesn't exist -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://synfig.org/User:PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
