[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#413604: mailman: /var/log and /var/lock symlinks should be absolute

[Vivien Lacourba]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 17:30 -0800, kgk wrote:
> Package: mailman
> Version: 1:2.1.9-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> /var/lib/mailman/locks should link to /var/lock/mailman, 
>   not to ../../locl/mailman
> 
> /var/lib/mailman/logs/ should like to /var/log/mailman
>   not to ../../log/mailman
> 
> All the other  symlinks in the package are to absolute paths.
> This makes it easy to move the entire /var/lib/mailman directory
> to someplace other than the /var filesystem when it grows
> too large.

Just to say that I support your bug report as I ran in the exact same
problem after I installed mailman on etch.

In reply to (Subject: Re: Bug#408855 from Lionel Elie Mamane
<lionel at mamane.lu>):
> Debian policy says that "In general, symbolic links within a
> top-level directory should be relative". We can deviate from that
> if there is a good reason for it (that's why it says "in general").

I wanted to symlink /var/lib/mailman to /u/mailman (as /u is a larger
partition), and noticed the /var/lock/mailman & /var/log/mailman where
using relative symlinks, I had to recreate absolute symlinks for logs
and locks in order to for mailman to run.

Vivien

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