[Aptitude-devel] Bug#738350: aptitude #738350: "Reconfiguring" and "Report Bug" missing in menu

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 12:05:10 UTC 2016


Control: tags -1 + pending


2015-10-12 23:12 To Axel Beckert:
>
>I still didn't go ahead removing reportbug

Removed a while ago.

>there is the parallel issue of the call to
>dpkg-reconfigure, which I don't know if it's better to keep, add to the
>menu and fix some issues (#680334) or remove it altogether.

Will be removed now...

>For reportbug there's the possibility of implementing the drop of
>privileges, but for dpkg-reconfigure we need root anyway, it's not a
>security issue but there is some work to do to bring it to first-level
>functionality.  I still think that it's probably better to remove both
>reportbug and dpkg-reconfigure -- perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think
>that they are very used/important features.

... so this bug can be closed.


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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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