El 27/01/13 13:18, Roger Leigh escribió:
Package: base-files
Version: 7.1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Hi Santiago,
I've attached a patch for adding support for the "gshadow"
(group shadow) NSS database to nsswitch.conf. Without this,
the libc getsg* family of functions will not work, hence
marking serious or else these functions will be broken for
new installations;
Hmm, I'm very confused by the severity you have given to this report
this late in the wheezy freeze, and also by the fact that you provide a
patch but not a complete explanation why it is so much important (or at
least an explanation which I can understand). Let me ask you a few
questions to better understand the issue:
* Is this a new problem, or it is an old problem that nobody noticed
until now?
* How many users are affected by this? Does this affect the average user?
* How is it possible that we didn't notice until now?
* What package, exactly, does break by *not* having the proposed line?
(I use NIS and NFS in a computer lab, and it works, so it is hard for me
to believe that this is RC for wheezy).
* What is glibc default value for such line if missing from
nsswitch.conf? Should this not be *also* a bug in glibc for not having
sane defaults?
[ Update: A simple search tells me you have also filed #699089 against
libc-bin for this reason ].
I hope you find all these questions reasonable enough.
would also be nice if it was possible to
add for upgrades as well? Do we have any mechanism for
making NSS updates?
No, we don't have a mechanism for upgrades, but if we had to do that,
the right package for doing it would be libc-bin:
http://bugs.debian.org/649265
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