Package: ircd-ircu
Version: 2.10.12.10.dfsg1-1
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 -u ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/dirs ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/dirs
--- ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/dirs
+++ ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/dirs
@@ -4 +3,0 @@
-var/run/ircd
diff -u ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/changelog ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/changelog
--- ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/changelog
+++ ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ircd-ircu (2.10.12.10.dfsg1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Fixes handling of /var/run/ircd life cycle (Closes: #XXXXXX).
+
+ -- Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:21:36 +0800
+
ircd-ircu (2.10.12.10.dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Omertà " release
diff -u ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/rules ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/rules
--- ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/rules
+++ ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/rules
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@
# fix directory permissions for logdir
chown -R irc:irc debian/ircd-ircu/var/log/ircd
- chown -R irc:irc debian/ircd-ircu/var/run/ircd
# move manpage
mv debian/ircd-ircu/usr/share/man/man8/ircd.8 debian/ircd-ircu/usr/share/man/man8/ircd-ircu.8
diff -u ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/init ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/init
--- ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/init
+++ ircd-ircu-2.10.12.10.dfsg1/debian/init
@@ -22,7 +22,15 @@
# where the irc-daemon is
IRCD=/usr/sbin/ircd-ircu
-PIDFILE=/var/run/ircd/ircd.pid
+RUNDIR=/var/run/ircd
+PIDFILE=${RUNDIR}/ircd.pid
+
+if [ ! -d ${RUNDIR} ] ; then
+ mkdir -p ${RUNDIR} || true
+ if [ -d ${RUNDIR} ] ; then
+ chown -R irc:irc ${RUNDIR}
+ fi
+fi
if [ -x "$IRCD" ]; then
case "$1" in
