[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#857678: use /run prefix in systemd socket unit

[cgzones]

2017-03-13 23:11 GMT+01:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 21:58:46 +0100, cgzones wrote:
>> Since recently the reference policy defines the file contexts with
>> /run prefixes [1] and only supports /var/run via a backward
>> compatibility alias.
>
> Is that backwards compatibility alias available in the stretch version
> of the reference policy?

yes

> How old is the first reference policy where the /run version works?
>
> How far in the future is the backwards compatibility alias expected to
> go away?

idk, there was/is some discussion at the refpolicy mailing list [1]

>> Please alter the path from /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket to
>> /run/dbus/system_bus_socket in /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket to
>> avoid wrong file contexts in the future.
>
> For better or worse, the canonical, interoperable path for the system
> bus socket across multiple OS distributions is
> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket (it has been that since long before
> /run was widespread). If /var/run is equivalent to /run, then it shouldn't
> matter either way. If /var/run is not equivalent to /run, then the version
> we should probably prefer is /var/run.

ok, I see
also, I found the path /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket in the official
documentation [2]
and a similar dbus bugreport [3].

For my part, this can be closed or marked as wont-fix then.

Thanks for the quick response.

[1] http://oss.tresys.com/pipermail/refpolicy/2017-March/009166.html
[2] https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#idm2461
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783321