user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertag 532120 = normative tags 532120 patch severity 532120 normal merge 532120 620870 thanks
Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> writes: > 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. My patch for #620870 also handles this (by adding a separate section and referring to it from the init script section), so merging accordingly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwfreae4....@windlord.stanford.edu
