Package: libdebuginfod-common Version: 0.187-2 User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu kinetic Hi, libdebuginfod-common sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS to a reasonable default (after prompting appropriately because it's a privacy leak otherwise). But Debian Policy 9.9 says: "Programs installed on the system PATH (/bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, or similar directories) must not depend on custom environment variable settings to get reasonable defaults." Ideally upstream would support using a file in /etc instead, or failing that, policy suggests using wrappers. Technically then this seems like a policy violation. I also don't like it because it imposes an environment variable on every user - for example in Ubuntu libdebuginfod-common ends up on every system because of the built in crash handling. It wouldn't scale and seems quite ugly to carry this configuration around in environment variables, and debuginfod doesn't seem like it should have a special exception. Thanks, Robie
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