Re: Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 05:44:25 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 08.10.2012 22:53, Guillem Jover wrote: That applies as well to any path generated at maintainer script or run time by the package (like state, cache, log files, etc), but I don't think it's currently a good idea for these to

Re: Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi guillem! On 08.10.2012 22:53, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:02:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: I actually find it pretty handy if I can use dpkg -S to find out which package a particular directory belongs to. So shipping the

Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Packages must not include files or directories under /run, or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths. The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does this; although it

Re: Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:02:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Packages must not include files or directories under /run, or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths. The thing is