-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/14/2014 2:35 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > How comes you are closing bug reports for foreign packages? When > you say "I'm going to have to reject this request", are you > speaking on behalf of the package maintainer or of upstream? Any > further explanation _why_ it is rejected?
I am in the process of becoming the package maintainer. > IMHO creating the missing mount point as necessary would be > reasonable. It reduces the probability to run into an error, esp. > for nested mounts using tmpfs and other "dynamic" file system > types. You are looking at it backwards. It increases the probability of running into an *undiagnosed* error, which is much worse than running into an error because you made a simple mistake. In other words, if you specify the wrong mount point by accident, you want mount to tell you that you messed up. It would be wrong of mount to assume that the mistake you made was not simply a typeo or some other error, but that you just forgot to create the directory. For instance, you forgot to mount /foo first, then tried to mount /foo/bar. You don't want /foo/bar created in the root fs, you want to be reminded that you forgot to mount /foo, which already has the expected bar in it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS/is5AAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwg08H/2GsqaGhSY5WDVZcXHu33Vn0 8SXKdjM6ObofOUm5edKoLCxsl+y71Chv9gab4MI6IR572AVu3a+b+HkAY5jxJ+Ql TykID5k1t22BLFyJ5/JfVBcLXRfuzWKoEyPKdQkToK/Yg4Ro7650Jak+5G1vEw1b dnHKun8KiNw5aptCE3uoyioz1cXMyO9NUBLsjBQtDKZqGDZ5I9tsx3Kg77imWABo 2a0e4xZfZ/OFQDA2l2dbr6GYEuv7AsVujUcBU0KvOqTO2CbX2/ERg386nB6F1f8u sgX3x1ozgNDxsmcQtv4rHK2eZikHMeo7FSzMkc4JSjrI9p4Dhd9IC2F680fHTRw= =tIoJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
