Debian Bug report logs - #477055
lsb-base: fix for #406059 breaks exim (#476987)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: lsb-base: fix for #406059 breaks exim (#476987)

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:37:42 +0200

Package: lsb-base
Version: 3.2-9
Severity: normal

Hi,

starting with lsb-base 3.2-9, empty command line arguments are passed
through to the daemon, which may confuse the daemon:

/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m '' '' ''

The Eval that was removed in 3.2-9 caused the empty arguments to be
removed:

+ eval /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m '' '' ''
++ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m

Greetings
Marc

Message #20 received at 477055@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>, 477055@bugs.debian.org, 477055-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

Subject: Re: severity of 477055 is normal, tagging 477055, block 477055 with 477258

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:55:35 +0200

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:48:06AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> tags 477055 + wontfix

Is it asking to much that a wontfix tag would get at least a single
word of explanation?

Greetings
Marc

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Message #28 received at 477055@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Chris Lawrence" <lawrencc@debian.org>

To: "Marc Haber" <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 477055@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 477055-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#477055: severity of 477055 is normal, tagging 477055, block 477055 with 477258

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:00:05 -0500

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:48:06AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>  > tags 477055 + wontfix
>
>  Is it asking to much that a wontfix tag would get at least a single
>  word of explanation?

Considering that there is a patch for the problem with exim4, upstream
agrees that the problem is in exim4, and the use of eval in
start_daemon() is Considered Harmful and can be worked around (which
can be found discussed in the bug log for the original bug), I'd say
the general consensus is that this is not a bug in lsb-base.


Chris

Message #36 received at 477055-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>

To: 477055-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Re: Bug#477055: severity of 477055 is normal, tagging 477055, block 477055 with 477258

Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:07:35 +0200

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Version: 3.2-23.2squeeze1

Le 25.04.2008 21:00, Chris Lawrence a écrit :
> Considering that there is a patch for the problem with exim4, upstream
> agrees that the problem is in exim4, and the use of eval in
> start_daemon() is Considered Harmful and can be worked around (which
> can be found discussed in the bug log for the original bug), I'd say
> the general consensus is that this is not a bug in lsb-base.

4 years after... This had not been fixed before Squeeze's release and is
still a wontfix with the maintainer-at-the-time thinking that it's not a
bug in lsb-base. The line of argumentation is convincing to me.

I'm hereby closing that as fixed in Stable, in which the "culprit" code
already is. Feel free to open a new bug with recent data.

Cheers,

OdyX

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Message #41 received at 477055-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 477055-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing 477055

Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:24:40 +0200

close 477055 3.2-23.1
thanks

Mark it as done in the common ancestor of current stable and later versions, to take it out of the wheezy radar.

Sorry for the noise.

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