[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#714202: [Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#714202: puppet: [PATCH] improve systemd packaging, use dh-systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:37:38PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> 
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> writes:
> > Hm, why the backwards move to /var/run?
> See the patch description:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH 2/4] puppet.service: use /var/run instead of /run to confirm
>  with debian-policy
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> § 9.1.1:
> 
> Packages must not assume the /run directory exists or is usable without
> a dependency on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3) until the stable release
> of Debian supports /run.
> 
> 
> Obviously, if you don’t want to use /var/run, you could bump the
> dependency on initscripts as well :).

The latest stable release is wheezy which has full support for /run.
That means, for jessie, you can just make use of /run *without* an
explicit initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3) dependency.

Cheers,
Michael