Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian M. Carlson writes ("Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required"): > But seriously, if violating Debian Policy has no consequences, then it > probably won't be followed. As it stands now, Policy is useless because > the worst that can happen is an

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 15 May 2006, Bastian Blank told this: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:10:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> I propose to file bugs against the packages before the end of this >> week, and, after a couple of weeks, for packages that haven't been >> fixed already, start making NMUs (via DELAYED/7,

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:37:56PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Then when are we removing the debian-policy package from the archive? > But seriously, if violating Debian Policy has no consequences, then it > probably won't be followed. As it stands now, Policy is useless because > the worst t

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:19 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: > [...] > >>> AFAIK, vi

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: [...] >>> AFAIK, vilolating policy always waarent a serious bug: [...] >> This is not wha

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: >> Lars wrote: The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? This does not fit. >>> It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on >>>

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: > Hi Lars! > > You wrote: > > > > The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? > > > This does not fit. > > > > It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on > > http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt,

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Lars! You wrote: > > The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? > > This does not fit. > > It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on > http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt, which means that it isn't > release critical, unless I've misunderstood somet

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-05-15 kello 08:55 +0200, Bastian Blank kirjoitti: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:10:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I propose to file bugs against the packages before the end of this week, > > and, after a couple of weeks, for packages that haven't been fixed > > already, start making

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:10:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The latest version of the Debian Policy Manual has made the use of > invoke-rc.d mandatory, if that command exists. Directly calling an (...) > Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >nessus-core Fixed pack

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:10:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I propose to file bugs against the packages before the end of this week, > and, after a couple of weeks, for packages that haven't been fixed > already, start making NMUs (via DELAYED/7, since they're not RC) to get > the packages fi

Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
The latest version of the Debian Policy Manual has made the use of invoke-rc.d mandatory, if that command exists. Directly calling an /etc/init.d script in maintainer scripts is no longer allowed, unless invoke-rc.d doesn't exist on the system. See section 9.3.3.2.[1] [1] http://www.us.debian.