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Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock

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Package: base-files
Version: 13
Severity: important

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I'm creating a script to build an image where I essentially do this:
- - Create base system with debootstrap (minbase variant)
- - Install aptitude
- - Use aptitude to install more packages

And then I noticed the following in the log file:
```sh
E: Could not open lock file /var/lock/aptitude - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Could not initialize dependency cache
...
W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt
tool is already installing packages. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you
make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!
```

So I modified my script to first list the contents of `/run` and `/var`:

```sh
ls -lh /run:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 160 Oct  8 13:16 host
ls -lh /var:
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4.0K Jun 11 15:00 backups
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4.0K Oct  8 13:11 cache
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root  4.0K Oct  8 13:16 lib
drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Jun 11 15:00 local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 Oct  8 13:12 lock -> /run/lock
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4.0K Oct  8 13:15 log
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail  4.0K Oct  8 13:12 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4.0K Oct  8 13:12 opt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     4 Oct  8 13:12 run -> /run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4.0K Oct  8 13:12 spool
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root  4.0K Jun 11 15:00 tmp
```

So `/var/lock` points to `/run/lock` ... which doesn't exist.
And that results in errors and a warning from aptitude with potentially
some serious consequences.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii  gawk [awk]  1:5.2.1-2
ii  mawk [awk]  1.3.4.20230808-1

base-files recommends no packages.

base-files suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-10-08 18:10 +0200
  Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2023-10-08 19:50 +0200
    Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-10-08 20:40 +0200
    Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-10-09 00:50 +0200
      Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2023-10-09 01:40 +0200
        Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-10-09 12:30 +0200
          Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2023-10-09 13:20 +0200
            Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-10-12 00:00 +0200
              Bug#1053677: base-files: /var/lock points to non-existing /run/lock Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2023-10-16 00:00 +0200

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