[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#579643: Bug#579643: Bug#579643: Bug#579643: puppetdlock doesn't get removed always

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:30:53PM -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> 
> Given upstream seem quite keen on being as compliant as possible, I
> suggest we should do this upstream, this seems like a rather big
> behavior divergence for just Debian?
> 
> I'd be happier us doing it if upstream is planning to.
> 
> /var/run seems like a much more sane location for this, I don't think
> we should break people like Russ who are relying upon this behavior.
> 
> Russ, would you be happy with simply having to override your own
> puppetdlockfile location to keep your existing behavior if we/upstream
> changed to a location that doesn't persist across reboots?
> 

If we do go changing this as proposed, something should be added to the NEWS
file. I'm sure there's more people than just Russ relying on the current
behaviour.