Bug#555979: debian-policy: Symlinks pointing beyond the root of the file system

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 01:44:02PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Andrey Rahmatullin , 2014-11-22, 12:39: > > >--- a/policy.sgml > > >+++ b/policy.sgml > > >@@ -8892,6 +8892,7 @@ fname () { > > > would point to /srv/run rather than

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > + 4294967294: > + > + > + (uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2) must > + not be used, because it is mistaken for > + 65534 nobody by some > + programs. > + > + I

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > You rightfull object that 'the expectation is that an experienced Unix > person' is subjective in nature and leads to contradictory opinion. > So maybe we should replace the phrase 'If the expectation is ...' by a > reference to standard that define what UNIX is (POSIX,

Bug#768117: debian-policy: WSGI API must distinguish between Python 2 and 3

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 07:08:31PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Thanks for your clarification. Is the attached patch OK ? > > diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt > index f52ddba..f68133f 100644 > --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt > +++ b/virtual-packa

Bug#770016: Clarify network access for building packages in main

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/11/14 at 21:13 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Was there a lot of failure ? > > No > > > What severity did you use for the bug report ? > > serious So in practice, this is already handled as a RC bug. Good. > > Are you in

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:44:22PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's > > suggestion (which seems sound to me). > > I miss the special case of 32-bit wide -2, aka

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:06:15AM +, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: important > > Hi, > > the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i > would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted: > > | Important programs, includ