Bug#877414: systemd: please include a /var/log/README like Fedora has

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Tue Sep 13 13:33:18 BST 2022


On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 05:29:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> A "rm -f /var/log/README" in postrm is simple enough, or at least not more
> complicated then creating the symlink (manually) via debian/systemd.links.

right.
 
> Question is, what's conceptually more desired. Marco mentioned on IRC that
> shipping a static symlink in the package conflicts with the goal, that /var
> should be empty by default (see factory-reset [1]).

I don't understand, however /var/log/README is provided, it always
means /var isn't empty?

> Seems piuparts is happy with the status quo, so maybe we don't actually need
> an explicit cleanup of /var/log/README and we can just close this bug
> report?

usually piuparts is rightfully unhappy, though exceptions exist. :)


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