/etc/hotplug/.run should go elsewhere

[Evgeny Stambulchik]

/etc/hotplug/.run serves as a placeholder for variable run-time data. As such,
it must be e.g. in /var/run/hotplug. And whom is it hiding from, BTW, by using a
dot name?! Other distributions (Debian, Gentoo) work fine without this appendix
altogether.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

1) /var is not available at this stage of the boot sequence.
2) this is directly from Debian
3) and hotplug is going away in breezy anyway

[Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny)]

> 2) this is directly from Debian

Not in stable, at least...

> 3) and hotplug is going away in breezy anyway

What do you mean? I do run 5.10.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> > 2) this is directly from Debian
>
> Not in stable, at least...
>
As is widely documented, we take from unstable.

> > 3) and hotplug is going away in breezy anyway
>
> What do you mean? I do run 5.10.
>
Meh, thinko ;) I mean dapper, obviously <g>

[Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny)]

> As is widely documented, we take from unstable.

Sure, but my understanding was it's the polishing of the rough edges that
distinguishes Ubuntu from Debian unstable...

> I mean dapper, obviously

OK. Can you post a link to the relevant discussion/decision?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > I mean dapper, obviously
>
> OK. Can you post a link to the relevant discussion/decision?
>
Many posts across lkml, etc. It's entirely obsoleted by udev now.

[Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny)]

> It's entirely obsoleted by udev now.

Sure, but my understanding was that udev calling /etc/hotplug/* scripts was the
intended way, but now looking into /etc/udev/* comments I see it's a temporal
workaround.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> > It's entirely obsoleted by udev now.
>
> Sure, but my understanding was that udev calling /etc/hotplug/* scripts was the
> intended way, but now looking into /etc/udev/* comments I see it's a temporal
> workaround.
>
See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareDetection