[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#626263: /var/run and /var/lock symlinks should be absolute

[Michael Biebl]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.5
Severity: important

Hi,

I think Debian policy 10.5 is pretty clear: Only symlinks *within* a
toplevel directory should be relative, symlinks spanning multiple
directories should be absolute, i.e. /var/lock should point to
/run/lock, /var/run to /run and /dev/shm to /run/shm.

It was pointed out, that this makes it harder to inspect those
directories in a chroot.
On the other hand, relative symlinks make it harder to see where they
are pointing to and you can more easily hit the maximum symlink depth.

I don't think it makes sense to special case /var/run and it should
follow policy. If the reasons for 10.5 no longer hold true, then this
section needs a review. But we should avoid inconsistencies when
possible.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-486
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                   8.5-1        GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                 3.4.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.13-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-27       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                       2.17.2-9.1   Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                     2.88dsf-13.5 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils              2.88dsf-13.5 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-4  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.13-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/mountall.sh changed [not included]

-- no debconf information