user [email protected]
usertag 532120 = normative
tags 532120 patch
severity 532120 normal
merge 532120 620870
thanks

Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> writes:

> The wording of Policy 9.3.2's

>  /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems[60], so the
>  init.d scripts must handle this correctly.

> only applies to init.d scripts. But init.d scripts are not the only scripts
> using /var/run. Bug#452198 is not RC if you apply this rule only to init.d
> scripts, because it provides no init.d script.

> Therefore, I propose to change the requirement so that all packages must
> support /var/run/ and /var/lock/ on temporary filesystems, and not only
> those which provide an init script.

My patch for #620870 also handles this (by adding a separate section and
referring to it from the init script section), so merging accordingly.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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