On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:17:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> /var/mail and /var/spool/mail (#42052)
> * Old.
> * Proposed by Joseph Carter; seconded by Gordon Matzigkeit, Joey
> Hess and Santiago Vila.
> * This outlines a migration path from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail.
> Old systems will have /var/spool/mail with /var/mail a symlink.
> New machines will have the reverse. Packages using /var/mail
> should depend on the version of base-files that implements this.
There are no outstanding objections to this proposal. In fact, recent
concensus has been that changes to policy that break a majority of
packages need to be transitioned in.
/var/mail is required by FHS. This proposal provides the only reasonable
transition possible (that /var/mail and /var/spool/mail both exist--one as
a symlink to the other) and the base-files maintainer has already agreed
to add support for this proposal once it is accepted.
Are there any objections or outstanding issues had by anyone or can we
just agree this should be done?
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