On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Hi Santiago,
> * If I add /run to base-files, what would prevent anyone from > submitting a bug report against base-files saying "this is a > FHS/policy violation"? This isn't strictly an FHS violation, from what I understand and have seen comments on WRT /run. The FHS defines a minimum set of directories, not a maximum, and distributions are free to add additional directories at their discretion. Additionally, /run isn't a Debian-specific feature; it is being implemented by Fedora (hence RHEL in time) and SuSE right now, and other distributions will be catching up in time. /run has been proposed for FHS inclusion, so it should become an official part of the FHS in time, especially since it will be implemented by all the major distributions. WRT being in violation of Policy, Policy documents existing best practice, so I don't think it can really go into Policy until we have a working implementation. OTOH, we have a working implementation done now, which should be deployed soon, so I think proposing a Policy change to add /run would be inappropriate. > If we are going to make an exception to the > FHS, could you please amend policy accordingly? (cloning this report > and reassigning the clone to debian-policy would be a good start). I'll make a patch documenting the exception for /run in Policy, and make that bug blocked by this one, if that's OK? > * Do you really need a dependency on base-files? It seems to me that a > simple "mkdir /run" in whatever package needs it would probably be > enough to start using it. Of course I will gladly add /run to > base-files for completeness, it's just that I don't see the need to > have a dependency here. We can certainly just provide /run in initscripts. It's just that it will be needed by other init systems (e.g. systemd, upstart), and that it's a replacement location for existing directories provided by base-files. If you think it's better for initscripts not to have a versioned base-files dependency and to just provide /run as well, I can certainly do that--I wasn't sure if that was appropriate given that it was a top-level directory which the system might be expected to provide. Regardless of how this is handled in the specific case of initscripts, I think it would be appropriate for base-files to provide /run. Kind regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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