Bug#945906: dev-ref 4.6.4.1: text about unstable during the freeze might mislead

2019-11-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: developers-reference Version: 11.0.7 Dear maintainer, 4.6.4.1 says Note that development under unstable continues during the freeze period, since the unstable distribution remains in place in parallel with testing. During the freeze maintainers should not upload stuff to un

Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

2019-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > The way I see it, any pathname "owned" by a package is within the realm > of dpkg, which is in charge of tracking and managing the filesystem > contents for system software. I've, for example, always found it a big > defficiency that when querying dpkg about system pathnam

Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

2019-11-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 09:13:47 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > As I mentioned on debian-devel, I think major parts of this and of the > > sysuser stuff fall under dpkg realm. And my plan is to implement this > > kind of functionality natively in dpkg, regardless of what