Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
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and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #524461,
regarding bless /var/games
to be marked as done.

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sorry for post to the wrong address... 

On Donnerstag, 9. April 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Montag, 6. April 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove
> > /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least,
> > require adding purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that
> > would usually never be triggered).  My inclination would be to say that
> > this behavior is fine and perhaps we should officially bless it
> > somewhere.
>
> I've come to agree with this. :-) Now, where to bless it?

"9.1.1 File system Structure" has a list of exceptions from the FHS, so it 
seems it should go there.


regards,
        Holger, who will now make piuparts not complain about /var/games 
existing 
after package removal..

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control: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
control: usertag -1 +obsolete
control: tag -1 +wontfix

Russ Allbery and I did a round of in-person bug triage at DebConf17 and
we are closing this bug as inactive.

The reasons for closing fall into the following categories, from most
frequent to least frequent:

- issue is appropriate for Policy, there is a consensus on how to fix
  the problem, but preparing the patch is very time-consuming and no-one
  has volunteered to do it, and we do not judge the issue to be
  important enough to keep an open bug around;

- issue is appropriate for Policy but there does not yet exist a
  consensus on what should change, and no recent discussion.  A fresh
  discussion might allow us to reach consensus, and the messages in the
  old bug are unlikely to help very much; or

- issue is not appropriate for Policy.

If you feel this bug is still relevant and want to restart the
discussion, you can re-open the bug.  However, please consider instead
opening a new bug with a message that summarises and condenses the
previous discussion, updates the report for the current state of Debian,
and makes clear exactly what you think should change.

A lot of these old bugs have long side tangents and numerous messages,
and that old discussion is not necessarily helpful for figuring out what
Debian Policy should say today.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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