Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
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and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #795783,
regarding Applications should not use socket below $HOME by default
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Package: debian-policy
User-level applications should not use sockets below $HOME by default: the
filesystem used for $HOME might not support them, as is the case for NFS
or OpenAFS.
They should use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (if set) or as a fallback a temporary
directory below /tmp; any location below $HOME should only be used as a
fallback.
I'm not sure where in policy such a requirement would belong: we don't
seem to have requirements for either socket use nor what user-level
applications should be doing so far.
See also [1].
Ansgar
[1] <http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>
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control: user [email protected]
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.
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Sean Whitton
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