tags 514326 pending
thanks
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:06:00PM +, Tim Small wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
Tim was referring to the text of the FHS, though
(see the subject line), which I don't think we ought to modify in
debian-policy for this.
Yes, sorry about that, I hadn't appreciated
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:49:58PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Tim Small writes (Bug#514326: debian-policy: fhs-2.3 doesn't specify that
/var/run and /var/lock may be volatile ref rcS(5)):
It should not be assumed that the contents of this directory will
persist after a system reboot.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:32:20PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
The code that tends to suffer from this problem is init scripts, and so
I think it would be sensible to add a requirement in that section of the
policy manual proper. Here's a suggested patch (note that this adds a
new must; other
Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org writes:
The code that tends to suffer from this problem is init scripts, and so
I think it would be sensible to add a requirement in that section of the
policy manual proper. Here's a suggested patch (note that this adds a
new must; other policy editors, is
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:32:20PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:49:58PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Tim Small writes (Bug#514326: debian-policy: fhs-2.3 doesn't specify that
/var/run and /var/lock may be volatile ref rcS(5)):
It should not be assumed that the
Colin Watson wrote:
Tim was referring to the text of the FHS, though
(see the subject line), which I don't think we ought to modify in
debian-policy for this.
Yes, sorry about that, I hadn't appreciated that the FHS is independent
of Debian.. Your proposed change to policy looks good.
I
Tim Small writes (Bug#514326: debian-policy: fhs-2.3 doesn't specify that
/var/run and /var/lock may be volatile ref rcS(5)):
It should not be assumed that the contents of this directory will
persist after a system reboot.
I second this suggestion. Does Tim's proposed phrasing make it
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The requirements for /var/run and var/lock don't specify that the
contents of these directories may be volatile (e.g. ramdisk based,
as happens if you enable the RAMRUN option in /etc/default/rcS).
Some packages assume that
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