Control: severity -1 important

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:41:23AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Package: uucp
> Version: 1.07-30
> Severity: grave
> 
> systemd 258~rc1-1 changed the permission of /run/lock/ to not be 
> world-writeable, and this broke uucico:
> 
> uucico bofh - (2025-08-13 10:05:38.23 10405) ERROR: creat 
> (/var/lock/TMP00000028a5): Permission denied
> 
> Part of the problem here is that UUCP uses /var/lock/ both for "private" 
> locks, which should be moved elsewere (e.g. a tmpfile fragment could 
> create /var/lock/uucp/ with the correct permission), and for serial 
> device locks, which are a standard API documented in the FHS.
> 
> I have opened #1110980 on the systemd package about the second issue.

With the second issue resolved by making /var/lock/ available again,
the first issue is still a bug but no longer fatal.

> ciao,
> Marco

cu
Adrian

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