Bug#406714: asterisk-sounds-main: FHS violation: asterisk privacy mode writes in /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/priv-callerintros

[Steve Langasek]

severity 406714 important
found 406714 1:1.2.13~dfsg-2
thanks

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:05:37AM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:31:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > The asterisk privacy mode (Dial with option "P") records caller intros
> > > in /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/priv-callerintros . This violates the
> > > FHS and hence Debian policy.

> > But does asterisk run as root (I hope not)?  If not, then surely no intros
> > can be written to this directory, so policy isn't actually being violated --
> > it's just a feature that's unavailable to users of the package?

> It's not running as root by the default init script. A user can run it
> as root if manually running it without -U parameter.

> Right, the asterisk_fix won't reset the permissions on that dir to be
> owned by asterisk, thus for a default install that feature is plain
> broken. It may be "fixed" by the user by manually resetting permissions,
> though.

Ok, in that case I think it's fair to downgrade this bug.  (Which, btw,
wasn't being shown in the RC bug list for etch because of a missing epoch in
the version number...)

> > If there is a reason this bug needs to be treated as an RC FHS violation,
> > then an upload to testing-proposed-updates will be needed, because unstable
> > has a new upstream version of asterisk.

> Sounds sane to me. Backporting the fix from sid only should be a very
> minimal change. Shall I prepare an upload to t-p-u?

You're still welcome to do so.

Cheers,
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