Bug#37089: debian-policy: /var/mail and FHS considerations

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 2.5.0.0
> 
> Recently on irc there was a complaint that some newly compiled programs now
> use /var/mail in place of /var/spool/mail.
> 
> This came up before and we had a nice big flamewar about it with the help of
> the LSB and FHS people, trying to decide where to put the incoming
> mailboxen.  It was determined then that either location should be considered
> acceptable, but for now at least both must exist---one a symlink to the
> other.
> 

I maintain a pop daemon and indeed it would break if I did not take the time
to hack the code before releasing it.

So I just want to say yes to please make the needed symlinks and keep the move
to a standards based file system going and sane.