Old bugs
There are a few old policy bugs which I think should be looked at
before they are dropped as being too out-of-date (Manoj set a date of
4 July if I recall correctly). Please (a) change the subject of this
message if responding about a particular bug, and (b) take care to
Cc: nnnnn@bugs.debian.org to ensure that the response joins the right
bug report and doesn't get lost.
Julian
#20373: init.d scripts should not start daemons in the wrong runlevel.
This seems to be quite important: we don't wan't someone installing
a networking package in single-user mode to suddenly discover that
they are connected to the outside world without them knowing.
Please could someone have a look at and second this proposal?
#33826: naming init.d scripts: policy should describe when scripts
should and should not have a .sh suffix.
#23661: security implications of /usr/doc being accessible by default
though web servers.
Two new virtual packages requested:
#8221: ispell-dictionary
#24695: man-browser
#26159: The contact name in the virtual packages list needs changing.
(Manoj may have done this already; I haven't yet had a chance to
check.)
#27869: We should have a policy on icon location.
#29770: Policy should be clearer about conffiles and configuration
files: conffiles are those listed in DEBIAN/conffiles;
configuration files might not be listed. And packages should not
be permitted to directly modify the *configuration* files of other
packages.
#34046: There should be an X-free runlevel; more generally a runlevels
policy.
#36151: init.d scripts should begin with an explicit PATH (and IFS
etc?) so that they work even in strange situations.
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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