On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:32:29PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > >> * You ship an empty /tmp/ in the deb, please drop this. > > > > Personalbackup depends on the existence of the /tmp folder...so is it ok > > to just assume that it is always there ? > > > > Other packages assume it is there I guess, but I have never seen one > ship it. I think you will be safe to remove it, but the /var/run > discussion on -devel recently highlights what it means to assume a > directory will exist.
/tmp is part of base-files, so you can safelly assume it exists. What you can't assume is any file there will exist for long. -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28
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