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 #541872, regarding debian-policy: identical notation for disabled-by-user and auto-generated entries in /etc/inetd.conf to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.2.0 Severity: normal Hello policy makers :) update-inetd is seriously bug infested, IMHO to some extent because of the issue below. Policy 11.2 says: If a package wants to install an example entry into `/etc/inetd.conf', the entry must be preceded with exactly one hash character (`#'). Such lines are treated as "commented out by user" by the `update-inetd' script and are not changed or activated during package updates. [presumably, "not changed" here implies also "not deleted"] Effectively this means that we cannot distinguish between two entirely different things: local-admin-policy and examples generated by postinst maintainer scripts. Now how does this lead to bugs? Say I install ftp-daemon-a, which adds an example entry to /etc/inetd.conf, and then I uninstall the package. The example entry will survive the package's removal (even if prerm calls update-inetd, it won't be removed because it's indistinguishable from local-admin-policy). Then I decide to install ftp-daemon-b. If the package's postinst calls update-inetd to enable the new service, the new entry won't be added because it's apparently local-admin-policy that ftp should be disabled. A potential fix would be to prescribe that example entries added by maintainer scripts are preceded with '#<example># ' (to be consistent with '#<off># ' which is what update-inetd uses by default to denote disabled entries). Cheers, Serafeim -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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--- 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
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