On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:44:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. > > > > Why? > > > Because: > > > 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't > > > be re-created. dpkg will still think it should be there, however. > > And what does that break? AFAIK, dpkg will ignore a missing directory on > > package removal without incident. > Well, it is not good form. If you want to ship it there, be my guest. But > don't expect me to tell others to ship it _unless_ there is a real reason to > do so, and so far there isn't (there might be one in the future). That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their package. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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