tags 316883 - patch thanks On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:55:28PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:27:59PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > These bugs have gone far too long with no fix, and with absolutely no > > justification for the wontfix tag. They cause real breakage on live > > Debian systems, and not fixing this bug is completely unacceptable. > > Unless this is resolved shortly, I will be referring it to the > > Technical Committee.
Do that.
> > The ownership and permissions of disk block devices on a Debian system
> > are root:disk, 0660.
This is incorrect:
| brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 64 2005-12-02 07:20 /dev/hdb
The permissions are either set by the user on a static /dev or set
corresponding to the udev rules if udev is used. devmapper devices are
not managed in either of this two means.
> > Anything other than that is gratuitously
> > different, and will break existing tools that require those settings.
This is a user setting, which libdevmapper don't provide as a runtime
setting.
> The following patch, using the configure options suggested by Alasdair
> Kergon, reverts devmapper to the traditional and correct behaviour.
> If there is no response by the weekend, I intend to NMU this.
Rejected.
Bastian
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Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive.
-- Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7
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