Bug#1039979: /var/run and /var/lock should not be absolute symlinks

Bastien Roucaries <[email protected]> writes:

> I think we should update and ask a debconf question during upgrade if we
> detect /var being a symlink, that is the only problematic case, and
> upgrade if not the case during preinst

> Moreover it will allow sysadmin possibility to bail out and use bind
> mount if we detect a symlink

Oh, this is a good point. I don't think we have to decide this in Policy
(we can leave it to Santiago to decide in base-files; I'm not sure if
there are special considerations for debconf prompting at that low of a
level in the package dependency tree), but I can see the merits in that
approach.