Logcheck devel - Dec 2009 - Bug#561995: mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.3.4
Severity: normal

I am running debian/testing and just upgraded to logcheck 1.3.4 and it 
started reporting the error:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied

I created the directory and chown'd it to logcheck and it seems fine now.

Looking at the changelog, I see something was purposefully changed, so I 
imagine I wasn't supposed to be getting this error.
   [ Fr?d?ric Bri?re ]
   * Dropped (now useless) ownership/permissions fixes on /var/lock/logcheck

--Jayen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (960, 'stable'), (930,
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.111                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-106            process scheduling daemon
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.13                Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.3.4                 Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20081101-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  nullmailer [mail-t 1:1.04-1.1            simple relay-only mail transport a
ii  sysklogd [system-l 1.5-5                 System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.3.4      database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn  syslog-summary                <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Your message dated Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:10:40 +1300
with message-id <20091223011040.GA2499 at lapse.rw.madduck.net>
and subject line Re: Bug#561995: mkdir: cannot create directory
`/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied
has caused the Debian Bug report #561995,
regarding mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission
denied
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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Hrm, /var/lock was 0755 and it looks like it's been like that for a while. 
This installation has been tracking testing for 9 years.  Any idea why I never
had a problem before?

Thanks,
Jayen

--- On Tue, 22/12/09, Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at
bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> From: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#561995 closed by martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org>
(Re:  Bug#561995: mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': 
Permission denied)
> To: "Jayen Ashar" <J__n at yahoo.com>
> Received: Tuesday, 22 December, 2009, 8:12 PM
> This is an automatic notification
> regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the logcheck package:
> 
> #561995: mkdir: cannot create directory
> `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied
> 
> It has been closed by martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below along with your
> original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not
> received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact martin
> f krafft <madduck at debian.org>
> by
> replying to this email.
> 
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> 561995: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561995
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> Contact owner at bugs.debian.org
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> 

     
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