Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-10 Thread Stephen Dowdy
I guess the question i have here is... is /mnt being *USED* within the install at all, OTHER than by being an empty sub within the tarchive payload in the .deb ? Does dpkg, etc use /mnt for temporary extraction or as part of the postinstall infrastructure? Because if it doesn't -- making sure

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-10 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 09:05:08AM -0600, Stephen Dowdy wrote: I guess the question i have here is... is /mnt being *USED* within the install at all, OTHER than by being an empty sub within the tarchive payload in the .deb ? Does dpkg, etc use /mnt for temporary extraction or as part of the

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Stephen Dowdy wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.1wheezy6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they go stale (nfs), a package (in this case

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 20:55:33 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Stephen Dowdy wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.1wheezy6 Severity: normal Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: base-files Version: 7.1wheezy6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they go stale (nfs), a package (in this case 'base-files') that includes /mnt in the files section will