On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:53:24 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> I don't think this urgently needs to be fixed before squeeze, as it is
> only affects unofficial kernel packages.
And that is the first explanation from *anyone* as to why the
severity should be "important" instead of "serious".
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 21:31 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:20 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used,
> >> is implicit in the purp
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:20 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> [...]
>> Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used,
>> is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script.
>> [...]
>
> After thinking ab
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
> Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used,
> is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script.
[...]
After thinking about this some more and actually trying to implement the
hook scripts, I think
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:02:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
> The alternative, obviously, is a separate hook script to maintain symlinks.
> That immediately raises two more questions: (1) How do we make sure that
> it executes *after* the initramfs hook and *before* the boot loader hook, and
>
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:02 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> [...]
>> Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used,
>> is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script.
>> [...]
>
> No, that m
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
> Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used,
> is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script.
[...]
No, that means it has to be repeated in many different packages.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchin
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:57 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Ben,
>>
>> I could use your help on bug number 594127. Am I not understanding
>> the policy? Please read the bug log and advise. Thanks.
>
> Assuming that s390 kernels n
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I could use your help on bug number 594127. Am I not understanding
> the policy? Please read the bug log and advise. Thanks.
Assuming that s390 kernels normally use an initramfs to boot, I think
you're right about the lack of
severity 594127 important
thanks
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:17:48PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> The previous post shows that a *must* directive is being violated.
> Therefore, setting severity to serious.
Don't play bts ping-pong.
Bastian
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Quoting from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
>
> Severity levels
> ...
> serious
> is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must"
> or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release
> manager's opinion, makes the package unsui
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:36 -0400 (EDT), Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> (1) the hook scripts provided,
>> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-zipl,
>> do not maintain the symbolic links. The zipl boot loader typical
severity 594127 important
thanks
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> (1) the hook scripts provided,
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-zipl,
> do not maintain the symbolic links. The zipl boot loader typically
> uses the historic symbolic li
Package: s390-tools
Version: 1.8.3-2
Severity: serious
s390-tools version 1.8.3-2 was recently migrated to testing, and it
contained a fix for Debian bug report 590028. However, this fix is
incomplete, for two reasons:
(1) the hook scripts provided,
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel
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