Re: [SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.7-7-g742ae34
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:46:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@canonical.com> writes:
> > Policy 3.8.1 will state that /var/lock and /var/run may be volatile
> >
> > * checks/files{,.desc}:
> > + [CW] Emit dir-or-file-in-var-lock or dir-or-file-in-var-run, as
> > appropriate, for packages shipping directories or files in /var/lock
> > or /var/run. See policy bug #514326.
>
> Oh, excellent, thank you. I tried to think of how to check this last
> night and didn't think of that.
A friend reminded me about this today and I realised I'd been remiss in
not updating Lintian together with the policy commit. I suspect that
this will have a few false positives in cases where people ship the
directory in the .deb *and* create it in the init script, but frankly I
think that's a silly thing to do anyway.
Should I bump the severity to serious, since it's a "must" in
forthcoming policy? I wasn't sure.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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