severity 339749 important
thanks
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:21:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Bug #339749: maildrop: kills processes it shouldn't
>
> > Perhaps a misfeature, but not a release-critical bug (this affects only
> > certain children which are fairly broken anyway).
>
> AFAICS, 339749 combines with 339691 to cause data loss, which means there's
> a grave bug. Whose bug is it?
>
> I think the answer is maildrop, because I see no reason why it's
> appropriate for maildrop to take it upon itself to kill child processes.
> vacation is one known example of a program where this behavior fails
> badly, but I think it's reasonable to suspect there are others.
I don't think it's reasonable to prevent people from getting maildrop as
part of the future stable distribution just because some semi-random other
people can't take care of their processes. Of course, the bug should be
considered and fixed if necessary, but from maildrop's point of view, it
could well only be a matter of lacking documentation.
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