Package: autodir Version: 0.99.9-7.1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
Andreas Beckmann <deb...@abeckmann.de> reported in -devel that your package (as well as 27 others) ships a folder either in /var/run or /var/lock. This is forbidden by policy. Lintian detects the problem and warns as follow: /var/run may be a temporary filesystem, so any directories or files needed /there must be created dynamically at boot time. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.2 (Writing the scripts) for details. Severity: serious, Certainty: possible Check: files, Type: binary, udeb which is why I am reporting this bug with severity serious (and there fore, release critical). Please fix your package. I have attached what I believe is a good fix the problem, however, I haven't tried it, and I haven't tested if something more for creating the necessary folder at runtime should be added. Please make sure to test before applying the patch blindly. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
diff -Nru autodir-0.99.9/debian/changelog autodir-0.99.9/debian/changelog --- autodir-0.99.9/debian/changelog 2012-01-18 18:03:38.000000000 +0000 +++ autodir-0.99.9/debian/changelog 2012-10-07 10:16:07.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +autodir (0.99.9-7.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Package doesn't ship /var/lock/autodir anymore (Closes: #XXXXXX). + + -- Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:14:07 +0000 + autodir (0.99.9-7.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru autodir-0.99.9/debian/dirs autodir-0.99.9/debian/dirs --- autodir-0.99.9/debian/dirs 2006-02-20 15:20:39.000000000 +0000 +++ autodir-0.99.9/debian/dirs 2012-10-07 10:15:02.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,2 @@ usr/sbin usr/lib/autodir -var/lock/autodir
