Re: /var/lib, /var/mail

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:49:13PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> I don't think we should try to enforce that people use /var/mail now, it's
> just good to get it into the policy now.

So: Could you modify your proposal so that the change from /var/spool/mail
to /var/mail is postponed after potato?

I will not object to create a symlink /var/mail to /var/spool/mail, but
the right time would be in the frozen stage of potato.

Or maybe we could modify policy so that it reads: "Migration from
/var/spool/mail to /var/mail is postponed until further notice"
(i.e. Waiting for FHS 2.1 to be finallly released :-)

> FHS issues should not be bugs in potato---next version maybe, but not
> potato, I agree.

For this reason we have to be careful in the wording.

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