Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > This mail is intended for the user who is running the current Debian > unstable distribution (a.k.a. hamm). > > I'm the Debian maintainer who removed the /usr/spool symlink and some > other symlinks that were part of the `base-files' package...
Ahh, that's the package! I grepped /var/lib/dpkg/info/* for "/usr/spool", but didn't find anything. I shoulda tried harder. > Not only the FHS but also the old FSSTND says that the mail spool is > /var/spool/mail, so every program should look for mail there, not > in /usr/spool/mail. > > So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. > > If you want to help us on this, you may report all those bugs through the > Debian bug tracking system, see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or > http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs. > > [ Of course, if you want to help us even more, you may take a look at > the bug database first to make sure that the bug is not already reported ]. > > As it is often said: I apologize for the inconvenience, etc. etc. > > Thanks. All this is cool, I just couldn't figure out which package removed the link, so I wasn't sure which package to file a bug against. Thanks! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .