On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:51:25PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Bill, > > 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?
One scenario among others: Package A ships with /var/games in the deb, Package B remove /var/games in the purge postrm. Package A is unpacked: /var/games is created Package B is purged: /var/games is removed Package A is configured: postinst do 'touch /var/games/foo.hiscore' which fails. 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
