Bug#942051: debian-policy: [4.9] requirement to write only to /tmp, /var/tmp, ${TMPDIR} is too strict
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 at 18:08:09 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:51:53PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > > There are
> > > other paths that should be fine to be written to during the build
> > > process, for example /dev/shm
> >
> > Do you have example of packages that does that ?
>
> Anything that uses the POSIX shared memory API (shm_open()), and notably
> anything that is built using fakeroot with its default fakeroot-sysv
> backend.
fakeroot is not started by debian/rules so this is outside the scope of
this policy.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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