Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Wagner
Hi Simon, On Sunday 24 January 2010, Simon Horman wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: what about the suggested change? Is anything blocking this fix? :) The suggested change seems entirely reasonable to me. I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can if

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Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can if people feel strongly about it. The practical impact here is that until this bug is fixed, due to the archive lintian checks currently in place, this package can't be uploaded - including for security NMUs. So I would suggest that you upload,

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-24 Thread Simon Horman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:02:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can if people feel strongly about it. The practical impact here is that until this bug is fixed, due to the archive lintian checks currently in place, this package can't be uploaded

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-23 Thread Jan Wagner
Hi there, On Thursday 29 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there is no policy prohibition on mkfifo (and it can't be used to make special files). Perhaps we can add a footnote to policy mentioning mkfifo where the mknod prohibition is

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Horman
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: Hi there, On Thursday 29 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there is no policy prohibition on mkfifo (and it can't be used to make special files). Perhaps we can add a

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the consensus that this was the best option available. You may

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Seconded. On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:24:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Package: heartbeat Version: 2.1.4-7 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: mknod-in-maintainer-script Justification: Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly. Refer to Debian Policy

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the consensus that this was the best option available. You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: heartbeat Version: 2.1.4-7 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: mknod-in-maintainer-script Justification: Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.6 (Device files) for details. manoj -- System