On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:39:44PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:31:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Lintian has a tag: > > Tag: symlink-has-too-many-up-segments > > Severity: serious
> + Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory. This isn't listed in https://release.debian.org/jessie/rc_policy.txt I don't see any reason why it should be RC; so s/must/should/ IMO. > > for symlinks that contain so many ../ segments that they traverse above > > the root of the file system. This tag is currently used by ftpmaster to > > reject uploads, but this behavior is not explicitly prohibited by Policy > > (although it violates both shoulds in 10.5). Violating a should in policy means it is prohibited... Cheers, aj, thinking policy should just drop the "must" distinction entirely... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
