Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:23AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: >> Given that Shorewall's most popular distribution as of our last survey >> (http://shorewall.net/survey-200603.html) was Debian, i think it would >> make sense to make it easy for Debian/Ubuntu users to use more recent >> versions of Shorewall that behave like Shorewall users expect. As >> Andrew has mentioned, i don't think we're likely to get far with getting >> Debian to change the behaviour of the package. > > Changing it will just mean that the behaviour of other parts of the > system behave unexpectedly (or maybe break entirely). Best to leave > the init script alone, and just not use it as a user interface. > Getting stuff like that right is probably why Debian is the most > popular platform.
I think most of the opinions voiced in that thread indicated that the behaviour was very much *not* right for Shorewall users, despite the fact that it might be "right" in the Debian sense. -- Paul <http://paul.gear.dyndns.org> -- Did you know? Email is not private and can be viewed by your ISP, the recipient's ISP, and possibly other parties. You can make sure your emails are private by using GNU Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org> and an email plug-in like Enigmail <http://enigmail.mozdev.org>.
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