]] Tollef Fog Heen > ]] Martin Pitt > > > Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: > > > > I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that > > > > Steve > > > > Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim > > > > as > > > > the first alternative dependency for libpam-systemd makes sense and > > > > should > > > > not cause any negative effects for systemd users. > > > > > > In a steady state, this would probably be ok. However, we've so far seen > > > two instances of -shim breaking for systemd users > > > (https://bugs.debian.org/746242 and https://bugs.debian.org/765101), by > > > shipping outdated security policies. We are worried that this will > > > happen again on future updates of systemd. > > > > 8-4 now eliminates the copied d-bus policy entirely. This was by and > > large a leftover when Ubuntu had the split systemd-services, and other > > than that there was one remaining delta in the policy which we > > discussed yesterday and found to be unnecessary (and detrimental). > > That is good to hear. I'm hoping you're right there aren't any other > ways for it to regress for non-shim users.
I just became aware of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767468 . Not directly a shim bug, but cgmanager is pulled in by shim. (I have not done any analysis on the bug myself apart from reading it, but it looks reasonable.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
