Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Dec 12, 2003, at 20:50, Henning Makholm wrote: That is not true. The program *being packaged* is allowed to write to /etc as part of its normal operation. Apart form programs whose *task* is to change things in /etc (visudo, update-*) the most well-known cases are ifupdown and mount.

Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] And why ask on -legal? Um, excellent question. Certainly wasn't intended. My fingers must have slipped while trimming the recipient line. After being on -legal for ages and only recently subscribing to -devel it seems that debian- carries a certain

Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-13 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: | The problem is that a Debian package has not the right to modify | automaticaly things under the /etc dir. That means that murasaki | itself is not allowed to write anything in /etc/murasaki/*. [...] | -From the Debian policy : | Note that a

Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Pierre Machard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last week a RC bug was filled on this package (#223197). A good solution to close this bug is probably to upload a newer version, No, it seems to be yet another fallout of the linux-kernel-header transition. There are quite a lot of those at the