I plan to revert the -5 change from this bug which has also been reverted in the stretch upload.
It seems to be unnecessary. diff -Nur postgrey-1.36-5/debian/changelog postgrey-1.36-5.1/debian/changelog --- postgrey-1.36-5/debian/changelog 2017-11-25 11:18:01.000000000 +0100 +++ postgrey-1.36-5.1/debian/changelog 2019-05-09 13:35:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +postgrey (1.36-5.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Revert the 1.36-5 change due to a regression, discussed in #880047#. + The same patch has also been included in 1.36-3+deb9u1 and reverted + in 1.36-3+deb9u2. + There is no point in creating a /var/run/postgrey/ to hold the pidfile + as using /var/run/postgrey.pid seems to work just fine. + + -- Peter Palfrader <wea...@debian.org> Thu, 09 May 2019 13:35:38 +0200 + postgrey (1.36-5) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/postgrey.init: create /var/run/postgrey if it diff -Nur postgrey-1.36-5/debian/postgrey.init postgrey-1.36-5.1/debian/postgrey.init --- postgrey-1.36-5/debian/postgrey.init 2017-11-25 11:18:01.000000000 +0100 +++ postgrey-1.36-5.1/debian/postgrey.init 2019-05-09 13:35:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ DESC="postfix greylisting daemon" DAEMON_USER=postgrey -PIDFILE=/var/run/postgrey/$DAEMON_NAME.pid +PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON_NAME.pid SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$DAEMON_NAME # Gracefully exit if the package has been removed. @@ -55,14 +55,6 @@ # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started - if [ ! -d /var/run/postgrey/ ] - then - mkdir /var/run/postgrey/ - chown $DAEMON_USER: /var/run/postgrey/ - chmod 0755 /var/run/postgrey/ - # Restore selinux context - [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /var/run/postgrey/ - fi start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \ Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- https://www.debian.org/