Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-25 Thread Simon Horman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:02:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can > > if people feel strongly about it. > > The practical impact here is that until this bug is fixed, due to the > archive lintian checks currently in place, this package can't be up

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
> I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can > if people feel strongly about it. The practical impact here is that until this bug is fixed, due to the archive lintian checks currently in place, this package can't be uploaded - including for security NMUs. So I would suggest that you upload,

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Wagner
Hi Simon, On Sunday 24 January 2010, Simon Horman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > > what about the suggested change? Is anything blocking this fix? :) > > The suggested change seems entirely reasonable to me. > I'm reluctant to upload because of it. But I can

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-23 Thread Simon Horman
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there is no policy > > prohibition on mkfifo (and it can't be used to make special > > files). Perhaps we can ad

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2010-01-23 Thread Jan Wagner
Hi there, On Thursday 29 October 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there is no policy > prohibition on mkfifo (and it can't be used to make special > files). Perhaps we can add a footnote to policy mentioning mkfifo where > the mknod prohibition

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Seconded. On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: > > >> Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the > >> package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the > >> con

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: >> Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the >> package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the >> consensus that this was the best option available. > You may use mkfifo

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: > Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the > package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script > the consensus that this was the best option available. You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since the

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:24:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Package: heartbeat > Version: 2.1.4-7 > Severity: serious > User: lintian-ma...@debian.org > Usertags: mknod-in-maintainer-script > > Justification: Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly. > > Refer to Debian Po

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: heartbeat Version: 2.1.4-7 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: mknod-in-maintainer-script Justification: Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.6 (Device files) for details. manoj -- System Inf