Bug#522364: debian-policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: minor
This looks extremely obsolete. I think it can just be removed.
Seconds?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 975df94..a5c9d13 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5697,12 +5697,6 @@ rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null || true
by any particular mail agents. The use of the old
location <file>/var/spool/mail</file> is deprecated, even
though the spool may still be physically located there.
- To maintain partial upgrade compatibility for systems
- which have <file>/var/spool/mail</file> as their physical mail
- spool, packages using <file>/var/mail</file> must depend on
- either <package>libc6</package> (>= 2.1.3-13), or on
- <package>base-files</package> (>= 2.2.0), or on later
- versions of either one of these packages.
</p>
</sect1>
</sect>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.9.1 utilities to manage online documen
-- no debconf information
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