lintian: no clean way to handle runit support

[Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.18
Severity: normal


Hello,

while packaging a new version of roundup, I get a new lintian error
which I consider bogus, and which I will eliminate by using an override
for now.

The problem:

I'm trying to ship a package with 'runit' support, not only initscript
support. runit needs status directories for ephemeral data to track the
state of supervised processes, like a PID and stuff like: When was the
process started, stopped, which is the normal state for the process (up,
down), etc.

Since this data is semantically quite similar to a pid file, and also
only has meaning as long as the usually two supervising processes
exsist, I placed the directories for these processes under /var/run
(where PID files usually live). I have no better idea about where to
place these directories, and unless you have, I would prefer lintian to
not complain about these directories, or at most, as a warning (so I can
remove these errors from the overrides file).


Kind regards,
--Toni++


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
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  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (450, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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Versions of packages lintian depends on:
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ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.25              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-4               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl     0.1.22+b1            Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-p 0.31-2               Automated accessor generator
ii  libdigest-sha-perl  5.47-1               Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libipc-run-perl     0.80-2               Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-4              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19lenny2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.44-1.2   Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-4    on-line manual pager

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