Bug#555979: debian-policy: Symlinks pointing beyond the root of the file system

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 01:44:02PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>, 2014-11-22, 12:39:
> > >--- a/policy.sgml
> > >+++ b/policy.sgml
> > >@@ -8892,6 +8892,7 @@ fname () {
> > >           would point to <file>/srv/run</file> rather than the intended
> > >           target.
> > >         </footnote>
> > >+         Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
> > >       </p>
> > 
> > Seconded.
> 
> Seconded. as well.

Hello, 

Thanks for the seconds, I have commited this patch to the GIT repository.

Anthony objection about the "must" is not specific to this bug,
and the "must" is used in accordance to the usual practice of the policy
editors concerning auto-reject lintian errors, thus we cannot address it
there.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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