Bug#522364: debian-policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.1.0
> Severity: minor
>
> This looks extremely obsolete. I think it can just be removed.
>
> Seconds?
Seconded.
Regards,
Andrew.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 975df94..a5c9d13 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -5697,12 +5697,6 @@ rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null || true
> by any particular mail agents. The use of the old
> location <file>/var/spool/mail</file> is deprecated, even
> though the spool may still be physically located there.
> - To maintain partial upgrade compatibility for systems
> - which have <file>/var/spool/mail</file> as their physical mail
> - spool, packages using <file>/var/mail</file> must depend on
> - either <package>libc6</package> (>= 2.1.3-13), or on
> - <package>base-files</package> (>= 2.2.0), or on later
> - versions of either one of these packages.
> </p>
> </sect1>
> </sect>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> debian-policy depends on no packages.
>
> debian-policy recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
> ii doc-base 0.9.1 utilities to manage online documen
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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