Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700 with message-id <87o9rlx51o....@iris.silentflame.com> and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #554194, regarding ifupdown virtual package name and mass-filing (if accepted) 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 ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 554194: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554194 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, ifupd...@packages.debian.org Hi all, As you may or may not know, I've been working on an alternative implementation of ifup and ifdown, which I call 'ipcfg', for a few months now[1]. The code is now nearly at the point where I'll be using it on my own laptop, at which point I intend to upload it to experimental, too. Since it intends to be an ifupdown replacement, and indeed provides ifup and ifdown binaries, it will have to conflict with ifupdown. As a result, I'll have to make sure that it can be installed as an alternative to it, by way of a virtual package name. As such, I'd like to propose the addition of a virtual package name, "network-config-tool", that would be used for any package which provides "/sbin/ifup" and "/sbin/ifdown" binaries. If accepted, I will also be mass-filing wishlist bugs on packages that currently depend on ifupdown only because they need to be able to use ifup and ifdown, or because they have a versioned dependency on ifupdown to avoid certain bugs, with a request to provide a "network-config-tool" alternative. Thoughts, comments? [1] The announcement and some more detail can be found at http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/code/ipcfg/announce -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.htmlsignature.asc
Description: Digital signature
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---control: user debian-pol...@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 Whittonsignature.asc
Description: PGP signature
--- End Message ---