[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#680403: Bug#680403: udisks2 mounts devices in a non-FHS-compliant directory

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 07:34:21PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 05.07.2012 19:12, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Package: udisks2
> > Version: 1.98.0-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: FHS

> > udisks2 has taken to mounting user filesystems under /run/media.  This
> > directly contradicts the FHS, which says /media is to be used for mounting
> > removeable media.

> > This is therefore a serious policy violation in the udisks2 package.

> > This bug has also been reported upstream and upstream has refused to correct
> > the issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51709

> We've implemented /run despite it not being in the FHS.

We've implemented /run, as a special exception approved in Debian Policy,
for those bits of the filesystem previously stored in /var/run and
/var/lock.  No such exception has been granted for /media, nor should there
be.

> If there are good technical arguments for mounting removable media under
> /run/media (and I notice a few in the upstream bug report), I don't see
> why we shouldn't consider diverging from the FHS here.

No, there are no good technical arguments for the move.  There's a technical
justification given for creating per-user subdirectories, there is *not* a
technical reason for the move to /run.  This is a gratuitous incompatibility
with the FHS.

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