Bug#382788: [Yaird-devel] Bug#382788: yaird does not uses the kernel command like to find out the root partition

[Jonas Smedegaard]

package yaird
severity 382788 wishlist
tags 382788 confirmed
thanks

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:03:22 +0200 maximilian attems wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:31:48PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > 
> > How do any of the above make this bug release-critical?
> > 
> > No need to waste time writing long explanation to get it through my
> > thick skull, just point me to relevant policy definition or
> > release-team statement, please.
> 
> triple woow.
> you have boot failures due to not parsing kernel bootargs?

Thank you for the (non-)reference.

I find no evidence of this bug being "a severe violation of Debian
policy". Neither does it "in the package maintainer's opinion [make]
the package unsuitable for release."

More specifically, describing ways to abuse the package beyond its
documented limitations is not (by itself) a violation of policy.


I consider this bug "very difficult to fix due to major design
considerations." I agree with Sven that it is not very difficult to
add limited support, but truly fixing this bug is, I believe, simply
outside the design of the tool.


I thus lower severity to wishlist.


I welcome patches to (partly, even, as Sven suggests) fix this bug.


 - Jonas

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