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Bug#485559: marked as done (standardize tftp daemon behavior)

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 #485559,
regarding standardize tftp daemon behavior
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

[Opening a bug, as suggested on debian-policy@d.o . sorry for spamming]

Hello,

As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory,
I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a
consensus were already met.
(If you wonder why I'm interested with this, see [2])

I've worked on the following policy snippet. As far as I am concerned, I
would rather make the default location compulsory, and probably drop
"tftp-get-root-location" then.

Here it is. Your comments/amendments are welcome :

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11.12 Packages providing a tftp server

Packages that provides a tftp server (tftpd) which meets the criteria
listed below should declare in their control data that they provide the
virtual package tftp-server.

To be a tftp-server, a program must:

      * Provide a TFTP service compatible with RFC 783 and 1350. 
      * Serve filenames relatively to the defined tftp-root, not
        relatively to the system root directory (/). 
      * Provide a program named "/usr/bin/tftp-get-root-location" which
        returns the location of tftp root, as currently configured and
        enabled by the system owner.

And it should : 
      * Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory.

Note : The tftp-server is not expected to follow/serve symbolic links (due to chroot).
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I have also attached a typical "tftp-get-root-location" script (for
tftpd-hpa, but it should be simple to adapt for other daemons). 

Franklin Piat

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2005/03/msg00046.html
[2] http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/di-netboot-assistant/

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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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