On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 21:26:38 +1030 Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: Hello Ron,
Thank you for your reply. > Are you aware that Debian is currently frozen for release and has been now > for quite some months? Now is not the time to be pushing for a major update, > let alone one that changes several options incompatibly with previous > releases. Debian is frozen for five years? It is serious! :-( > The window for that sort of thing will (hopefully) open again soon, at which > point the major stumbling block becomes something that I know you are aware > of, > since we discussed it during the previous merge window ... > > I cannot feel comfortable about introducing a new interface for end-users that > requires them to run a freshly generated script, from an unsecured directory, > as root, as part of normal invocation and use, from distro packaged software. > > I expressed my concerns about this to you already, and Taisuke Yamada also > proposed some alternatives, all of which you dismissed. > > Do you have a new solution for this that might be more acceptable? > > If you do I will be glad to consider it for the next release, but so far you > have mentioned nothing further to me about resolving this issue, and you tie > my hands somewhat if you insist this is suitable when it fairly clearly is > not. This thread is about 'newer release is available', not one to discuss your proposal. Sure, I dismissed your proposal. But it is a long time ago. Although I am sorry about it, both accepting and dismissing are my job. I cannot accept all proposals. I am also always rejected in other projects. It is an unavoidable thing. If you believe that your proposal is good, you can orphan this package and make a fork of GLOBAL in another name, say 'secure-global', to prove your correctness to the world. In fact, many forks of GLOBAL already exist in Github. It seems that you make GLOBAL package the hostage to make your proposal accepted. It is a wrong behavior as a package maintainer. You should not block a way of others just because it does not become satisfactory. Instead, you can go your own way. I pray for your success. Regards, Shigio YAMAGUCHI -- Shigio YAMAGUCHI <shi...@gnu.org> PGP fingerprint: D1CB 0B89 B346 4AB6 5663 C4B6 3CA5 BBB3 57BE DDA3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
