[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Changing packages to cope with /var/run and /var/log being tmpfs.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Not sure how to handle those packages where we do not know when the
> fix will be uploaded.  A simple conflict without a version seem a bit
> harsh for a essential package to do.  Any opinions on this?

None, AFAIK.  I think we will have to add an unversioned conflicts on them,
and update it to versioned when they fix their side.  This is fine right
now, as our packages are going to experimental (and will have to for quite a
while -- there is a lot to fix to get the early userspace fs working fine).

Requests for support for ephemeral /var/run are very old... there is no
excuse for not implementing them if we supply a well-tested patch.  And we
can NMU the ass off anyone that sleeps on the patch for too long.   The same
can be argued for /var/lock.

That said, there is a LOT more to be done on our side, yet.  I will address
it immediately with another mail to the bugs in the bts.

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