tags 549011 + moreinfo thanks What exactly is the bug that this is referring to and how do I reproduce it?
safe-rm uses /bin/rm directly (and it checks that it's not a symlink to itself before executing it to avoid calling itself in an infinite loop). It ignores the system path. Now, I agree that dpkg and other utilities should not need to be modified to cater to safe-rm. The whole idea of safe-rm is to avoid interfering with the system but to prevent certain a certain type of deletions (the unintended ones). It's not designed to prevent you from deleting what you really want to delete. Of course, if a user decides to put "/usr/bin/*" in his/her /etc/safe-rm.conf then things will break as these deletions will fail. That's a configuration error and if it were part of the default config file, I'd consider it a bug. On the other hand, conflicting with /bin/rm is certainly not a design problem. That's in fact, the whole idea behind the tool. Cheers, Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
