[2009-05-23 20:52] Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> > markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> writes: > > > I maintain masqmail, a mail transfer agent. It stores files in > > /var/run. Now I have this lintian warning: dir-or-file-in-var-run. > > > > Unfortunately, I dont know how to get the warning disappear. > > > > I checked the init script. It creates the /var/run/masqmail on > > startup. Also comments and changelog entries state that one former > > maintainer worked on exactly the issue (/var/run being a temp file > > system). > > > > Now, I also removed the `/var/run/masqmail' line from debian/dirs, but > > still the lintian warning appears. > > Check the contents of your package. For some reason, the package still > contains the directory even though you've removed it from debian/dirs. Indeed. The upstream makefile still created the directory. After removing it from there, the error went away. Thanks for pointing me more closely on what to search for. meillo
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