Package: dtc-common Version: 0.32.10-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.4
It seems to me that the package tries to subvert policy 10.7.4 here. Other bugs have been opened against this source package in the past (for example #414469, #402432, #414484). I think that trying to get around policy by having the postinst do stuff like this: echo "************************************************************************" echo "* Warning! DTC setup is not completed. The postinst didn't do it all. *" echo "To finish the installation: execute /usr/share/dtc/admin/install/install" echo "************************************************************************" And thus telling the user to run a script which modifies the configuration files of a dozen other packages without warning, and often without a way back, is violating the spirit of the policy. stew -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
