Re: /var/lib, /var/mail
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:20:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > I'd say actually that any package using /var/mail should depend on the
> > > approprate base-files and we could do this for potato even.
> >
> > You would have to use Pre-Depends, because as soon as you
> > unpack a mail reader using /var/mail, /var/mail would be used, even
> > if base-files has not created the symlink yet.
> >
> > I dislike the idea of packages pre-depending on a specific version of
> > base-files, this imposes a certain order in the upgrade.
> >
> > I think there is no hurry and we should stick to /var/spool/mail for
> > potato.
>
> Even if we do this we must still declare the dependency I would imagine.
Yes, and it would still have to be a Pre-Dependency, but a package in
potato+1 which Pre-Depends on the base-files in potato is not a great
deal, considering that almost everybody will upgrade from slink to potato
first.
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