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Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var



On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:51:17 +0100 Sean Whitton
<spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue 13 Jun 2023 at 05:58PM +01, Mark Hindley wrote:
> 
> > There is a new upstream version of elogind[1] that is already
packaged in
> > Devuan[2] although that uncovered up an upstream issue that I am
waiting to be
> > resolved[3]. So, maybe by the end of this month?
> >
> > However, that is only considering whether the packaging and
dependencies can be
> > made to work (like Simon McVittie, I think they probably can).
> >
> > I remain much less convinced that there is a consensus for
requiring packages to
> > use tmpfiles.d(5) for /var, /tmp and maybe /etc. The recent thread
on
> > debian-devel demonstrated a range of opinion. Thorsten and Bill
have just raised
> > valid points about chroots.
> >
> > So, whilst I am happy to test the dependency changes in elogind,
enshrining this
> > as a 'should' in the Policy now seems, at least, premature.
> 
> Cool, thank you.  This will simplify resolving this bug.

Is there anything needed from me to make progress on this? Any changes
required to the last revision posted?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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