bz532373, was Re: tor dependency insanity.

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Enrico Scholz wrote:

>>>> The tor upstream has filed that as bug report as well.
>>>
>>> ... and understand my reasons not to activate logging
>>
>> That is not true. It just decided not to pick a fight over that while
>> more pressing bugs required you to fix them.
>
> ok; sorry that I thought that you were/spoke for upstream.

I met with them on numerous occasions (eg last at GSoC Mentor Summit
where we toegether worked on fedora tor bugs and created numerous "upstream'
bug reports so I could file the below bugzilla report to you.

>> upstream still has this as an open bug:
>>
>> http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=1133
>
> This does not seem to mean very much... The other bugs mentioned in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532373 are still open
> although some (all?) of them are objectively solved.

 	WONTFIX:

 	* Sun Dec 17 2006 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> -
 	0.1.1.26-1
 	- do not turn on logging by default; it's easier to say "we do not log
   	anything" to the police instead of enumerating the logged event
   	classes and trying to explain that they do not contain any valuable
   	information

Upstream reports a logging bug. You claim to know better and WONTFIX
because obviously you have more experience in the legalities of running
tor nodes and the police then upstream does......

And:

 	Output in %post violates Fedora Packaging guidelines

 	WONTFIX; The alternative would be something like '%postun() script
 	failed'. RH/Fedora should fix its core utils before it can expect to
 	follow such guidelines.

I don't even know what to say here. A provenpackager should just fix
your %post lsb output.

Also I filed:

> Fixed init scripts to use Fedora Guideline Package version which
> prevents trying to execute non-existing files in /usr/lib/lsb/

That wasn't solved last time i looked.

I also don't see any ulimit support in tor.lsb required for running
larger tor nodes.

I haven't looked through the tor upstream bug tracker recently to see
what other issues are there. But the fact that tor upstream is
recommending not using fedora packages is bad for everyone, and that
situation requires fixing.

So yes, that bugzilla bug is still open and with valid reasons.

Paul