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Bug#681562: marked as done (debian-policy: Consolidate the definition of the "base system".)

Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
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and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #681562,
regarding debian-policy: Consolidate the definition of the "base system".
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

Dear all,

the "base system" is defined in section 3.7 (chapter 3 describes binary
packages).  It consists of packages of priorities "required" and "important",
and these priorities are defined in section 2.5 (chapter 2 describes the Debian
archive).  The Policy contains the following additional statements about the
base system.

  The system-wide mail directory is <file>/var/mail</file>. This directory is
  part of the base system and should not be owned by any particular mail agents.

  The Debian base system provides the <prgn>tempfile</prgn> and
  <prgn>mktemp</prgn> utilities for use by scripts for this purpose.

  If a package needs any special device files that are not included in the base
  system, it must call <prgn>MAKEDEV</prgn> in the <prgn>postinst</prgn> script,
  after notifying the user.

  <footnote> The Debian base system already provides an editor and a pager
  program.  </footnote>

  The mail spool is part of the base system and not part of the MTA package.

I filed this bug as a reminder to try to consolidate the definition of
the "base system" in Policy version 4.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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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 Whitton

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