Control: tags 852314 pending Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:
> policy 9.1.1 nr 8 and the upgrading checklist still mention that > Packages must not assume that /run exists without a versioned > dependency on initscript "until the stable release of Debian supports > /run". > This language will lure the unobserving package maintainer into adding > this versioned dependency today when upgrading a long neglected > package and working along the upgrading checklist. > I therefore suggest removing the language from policy and the > upgrading checklist. If you don't want to rewrite history regarding > the upgrading checklist, please consider adding language like > "packages can assume that /run exists without a dependency on > initscripts" to the appropriate place in the upgrading checklist. Agreed. I've deleted that paragraph for the next release and added an upgrading-checklist entry saying this dependency is no longer required. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
