Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2012-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Here is an updated patch that tries to remedy those concerns. The requirement for /run and /run/lock is a separate point in the FHS exception list, and a new section under 9.1 has been added to spell out explicitly, for everyone, the requirements on

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2012-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:58:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that this version of the patch explicitly says that packages should use /run and /run/lock in preference to /var/run and /var/lock. My understanding is that this is where we want to

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2012-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello everyone (and happy new year!), I read through all of the discussion of this bug and reviewed the latest patches, and I had the following concerns. 1. A lot of the discussion of /run and /run/lock was in a non-normative footnote, but it was really normative text. It didn't fit well

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2012-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:58:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Comments, objections, seconds? Seconded. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:29:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:08:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: Would anybody object to Roger patch being applied without the reference to /run/shm, and leave this particular topic to another bug report ? Beside, I attach an

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 08.06.2011 23:22, schrieb Bill Allombert: Hello Cyril and Michael, Are you willing to resecond this as the final version ? At the current state, I'm not for adding /run/shm to debian-policy. If we can get wider

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:08:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 08.06.2011 23:22, schrieb Bill Allombert: Hello Cyril and Michael, Are you willing to resecond this as the final version ? At the current state,

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-28 Thread Thomas Hood
BTW, my alternative patch was intended only to improve the wording, not to change the import. I hope I succeeded (in improving it) and, if so, that you'll accept the improvement. Cheers, -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Michael Biebl wrote: At the current state, I'm not for adding /run/shm to debian-policy. If we can get wider acceptance of this feature (cross-distro), then my position on this might change. Atm this looks like a Debian-only feature with no real use-case why we need

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:08:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: Would anybody object to Roger patch being applied without the reference to /run/shm, and leave this particular topic to another bug report ? Beside, I attach an alternative patch by Thomas Hood that I found in the log but which

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.06.2011 23:22, schrieb Bill Allombert: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:25:18AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi, I have attached the full patch against current policy.git. This is identical to the previous patches, with the addition of a single sentence to the footnote: Additionally, the

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:25:18AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi, I have attached the full patch against current policy.git. This is identical to the previous patches, with the addition of a single sentence to the footnote: Additionally, the subdirectory file/run/shm/file is a replacement

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-05-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:43:02PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: + replacement for file/var/run/file, and its + subdirectory file/run/lock/file is a replacement for +

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-05-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Roger, I think the /run implementatio has progressed far enough to update policy. Your last patch was relative to a previous one. Could you regenerate it relative to current policy and seconders be so kind as to resecond

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:34:38PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal Hi, Please could you add /run as an exception to the FHS? I've attached a patch with proposed text. References: #620191 - initscripts support for /run #620157 -

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org (04/04/2011): + additionally allowed: file/run/file, + file/sys/file and file/selinux/file. + footnoteThe file/run/file directory is a + replacement for file/var/run/file, and its +

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net (05/04/2011): Updated patch attached. To match existing usage in the document, I've switch both to the singular reboot since the contents will be lost over a single reboot. Hope that's OK? Surely. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org (04/04/2011): + should not be preserved across reboot. “reboots” if you want to stay consistent with the hunk below. + contents are not preserved across reboots.

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi! + replacement for file/var/run/file, and its + subdirectory file/run/lock/file is a replacement for + file/var/lock/file. These changes have been + adopted by most distributions and have been proposed +

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: + replacement for file/var/run/file, and its + subdirectory file/run/lock/file is a replacement for + file/var/lock/file. These changes have been + adopted by

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:34:38PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal Hi, Please could you add /run as an exception to the FHS? I've attached a patch with proposed text. References: #620191 - initscripts support for /run #620157 -

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.04.2011 20:13, schrieb Bill Allombert: I suggest to wait until /run exists in unstable systems, but not until packages are using it. This allows developers to notice the change and maybe comment on the patch. http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/base-files/news/20110405T161708Z.html --

Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception

2011-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal Hi, Please could you add /run as an exception to the FHS? I've attached a patch with proposed text. References: #620191 - initscripts support for /run #620157 - base-files provides /run