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Re: (cfengine3) raising severity on 602404 and 605044 to grave



On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 13:02:46 +0000, Antonio Radici wrote:

> severity 602404 grave
> severity 605044 grave
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> I'm raising the severity of those two bugs to grave because, despite being fixed
> in experimental, they should also be fixed in squeeze, the rationale is that
> /etc/default/cfengine3 is unusable so the user cannot specify any option to
> start the daemons.
> 
> Those are the bugs:
> 602404 cfengine3 package uses wrongly names variables in /etc/default/cfengine
> 605044 /etc/init.d/cfengine3: unquoted variables
> 
> The result of #602404 is that if the user specify what startup opts wants, those
> will never be used because /etc/init.d/cfengine3 is using other variable names.
> 
> The result of #605044 is that, once #602404 is fixed, the user still won't be
> able to add full options because the variables in /etc/init.d/cfengine3 are
> unquoted so spaces cannot be used.
> 
> I'm CC'ing debian-release@l.d.o because since I will submit an unblock request
> for the new package (3.0.5+dfsg-2), they will have some background on the issue.
> 
That doesn't sound grave to me.  Just because you have to modify
/etc/init.d/cfengine3 instead of /etc/default/cfengine3 doesn't make the
package unusable, does it?

Cheers,
Julien

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