Package: watchman Version: 4.9.0-2 Severity: important watchman, as configured in Debian, hardcodes /tmp as a state location. it creates (in my case) a /tmp/anarcat-state directory and there's no way to put that directory elsewhere which is quite annoying.
the upstream documentation says that `--enable-statedir` can be used to point to another directory, but the debian package build explicitely hardcodes this to /tmp. that seems non-sensical, as /tmp (or, rather, TMPDIR) is the default. by hardcoding /tmp that way at the build stage, it makes it impossible for the debian package to pick another location for /tmp. if we insist on using /tmp as a state file (instead of, say, /run), we should use --disable-statedir instead of --enable-statedir=/tmp see also https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/4b98623e8fde17588f27494f3ae8f084b9b227d3/website/_docs/cli-options.markdown a. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages watchman depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-12 ii libssl1.1 1.1.1d-0+deb10u2 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 watchman recommends no packages. Versions of packages watchman suggests: ii python3-pywatchman 4.9.0-2 -- no debconf information
