Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not

2015-02-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 08:58:44AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Henrique and Bill, > > first, on the original purpose of this bug, it is to document that empty > fields > in binary package control files are not supported and can crash tools such as > apt. There, "empty" meant that the semic

Bug#773557: debian-policy: Avoid unsafe RPATH/RUNPATH

2015-02-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Martin Carpenter wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > The existing policy does not specify that the RPATH or RUNPATH (if > present) should not contain relative paths or paths that traverse > dangerou

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

2015-02-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:51:44PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 23:38:24 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:28:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bill Allombert writes: > > > > > > > + 4294967294: > > > > + > > > >