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
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 assume
Colin Watson 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 that a problem?
---
I'm not sure if this is the best place to put this information, so
suggestions are welcome.
policy.sgml |6 ++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 36f51aa..ba224f0 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2446,6 +2446,1
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"; ot
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 re
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:41:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Colin Watson writes:
> > I'd say:
> >
> > The Debian Social Contract simply refers to "areas".
> >
> > ... to emphasise the fact (as it seems to me) that the SC is
> > non-specific.
> >
> > I don't think we should feel tied to the S
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:01:37AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> >Kel Modderman writes:
> >
> >>It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the
> >>sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no
> >>longer relevant and should
Russ Allbery wrote:
Kel Modderman writes:
It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the
sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no
longer relevant and should be removed:
"""Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in
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