On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:01:46PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > The wording of Policy 9.3.2's > > /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems[60], so the > init.d scripts must handle this correctly. > > only applies to init.d scripts. But init.d scripts are not the only scripts > using /var/run. Bug#452198 is not RC if you apply this rule only to init.d > scripts, because it provides no init.d script. > > Therefore, I propose to change the requirement so that all packages must > support /var/run/ and /var/lock/ on temporary filesystems, and not only > those which provide an init script.
This seems reasonable to me; I don't think we'd foreseen this being a problem for things other than init scripts. Do you have a proposed patch for this, or a suggestion on how it might be better written? I thought a bit about moving the text somewhere else - maybe a new subsection under 9.1 - but I think the requirement applies *principally* to init scripts. Perhaps it would be best to simply add a parenthesis saying that this also applies to the rest of the system? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
