severity 406714 important found 406714 1:1.2.13~dfsg-2 thanks On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:05:37AM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:31:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The asterisk privacy mode (Dial with option "P") records caller intros > > > in /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/priv-callerintros . This violates the > > > FHS and hence Debian policy.
> > But does asterisk run as root (I hope not)? If not, then surely no intros > > can be written to this directory, so policy isn't actually being violated -- > > it's just a feature that's unavailable to users of the package? > It's not running as root by the default init script. A user can run it > as root if manually running it without -U parameter. > Right, the asterisk_fix won't reset the permissions on that dir to be > owned by asterisk, thus for a default install that feature is plain > broken. It may be "fixed" by the user by manually resetting permissions, > though. Ok, in that case I think it's fair to downgrade this bug. (Which, btw, wasn't being shown in the RC bug list for etch because of a missing epoch in the version number...) > > If there is a reason this bug needs to be treated as an RC FHS violation, > > then an upload to testing-proposed-updates will be needed, because unstable > > has a new upstream version of asterisk. > Sounds sane to me. Backporting the fix from sid only should be a very > minimal change. Shall I prepare an upload to t-p-u? You're still welcome to do so. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]