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

2019-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 at 10:58:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > I don't mind much how this could end up being hooked into various init > > systems and chroot/container managers. I can see how it could be done by > > the respective imeplementations themselves or provided by d

Bug#941198: please postpone until after the GR

2019-12-01 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! This idea being discussed hasn't been announced anywhere. And, it's extremely harmful to the support of anything non-systemd, while providing very little if any benefit to systemd users as well. It also would cause doubling of maintainer effort. But, in the light of the ongoing GR, arguing w

Bug#941198: please postpone until after the GR

2019-12-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Adam, On Sun 01 Dec 2019 at 06:07PM +01, Adam Borowski wrote: > This idea being discussed hasn't been announced anywhere. And, it's > extremely harmful to the support of anything non-systemd, while providing > very little if any benefit to systemd users as well. It also would cause > doub

Bug#941198: please postpone until after the GR

2019-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > This idea being discussed hasn't been announced anywhere. I tried to draw attention to it in debian-devel, for the record, and everyone there seemed happy with it as well. > But, in the light of the ongoing GR, arguing would be a waste of time at > this moment. Thus, co

Bug#941198: please postpone until after the GR

2019-12-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 01 Dec 2019 at 09:33AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't think there's any urgent need to put out a new normative version > of Policy and we could hold the next release until January. What do you > think, Sean? I'd be happy with an informal hold on normative releases, but before