Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700 with message-id <87o9rlx51o.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #412668, regarding Extend configuration file protection to symlinks to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 412668: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412668 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: debian-policy: extended 10.7 to other forms of configuration (e.g. symlinks)
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:17:51 +0100
- Message-id: <20070227101751.GA17504@vin.lip.ens-lyon.fr>
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: important [Severity set as important, because the lack of a requirement can have serious implications, including security ones.] Configuration is sometimes represented in another way than contents of a configuration file, e.g. a set of symbolic links. However there is absolutely no reason to regard such information as less important than the contents of a configuration file. This is particularly true for 10.7.3, e.g. the Debian policy should require that local changes in symbolic links (or whatever that can represent a configuration) must be preserved during an upgrade. An example is bug 412159 that is not regarded as a release-critical bug though one of the settings is not preserved, because the corresponding configuration is represented by a symbolic link somewhere in /etc. Note: though in this bug, the lost configuration is just one bit of information, this is still annoying, and in general, symbolic links can also represent much more information and possibly configuration related to security/privacy settings. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- no debconf information
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- Subject: Closing inactive Policy bugs
- From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
- Message-id: <87o9rlx51o.fsf@iris.silentflame.com>
control: user debian-policy@packages.debian.org control: usertag -1 +obsolete control: tag -1 +wontfix Russ Allbery and I did a round of in-person bug triage at DebConf17 and we are closing this bug as inactive. The reasons for closing fall into the following categories, from most frequent to least frequent: - issue is appropriate for Policy, there is a consensus on how to fix the problem, but preparing the patch is very time-consuming and no-one has volunteered to do it, and we do not judge the issue to be important enough to keep an open bug around; - issue is appropriate for Policy but there does not yet exist a consensus on what should change, and no recent discussion. A fresh discussion might allow us to reach consensus, and the messages in the old bug are unlikely to help very much; or - issue is not appropriate for Policy. If you feel this bug is still relevant and want to restart the discussion, you can re-open the bug. However, please consider instead opening a new bug with a message that summarises and condenses the previous discussion, updates the report for the current state of Debian, and makes clear exactly what you think should change. A lot of these old bugs have long side tangents and numerous messages, and that old discussion is not necessarily helpful for figuring out what Debian Policy should say today. -- Sean WhittonAttachment: signature.asc
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