Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.

Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Closes: #555979

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0ade39696d689c25cb5803c77382a1f30075d4ef..e5235a6ea94548b81d870c48d9d334a0b10696b3 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
+  * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
+    Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
+    Closes: #555979
 
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:00:10 +0100
+ -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:01:58 +0100
 
 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 7bb703bef00b6767fe6eb064b7113c4b03f509b5..24cf7d7b7bae208bf0a9c1dca3b6ecace1e40c6f 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8891,6 +8891,7 @@ fname () {
            would point to <file>/srv/run</file> rather than the intended
            target.
          </footnote>
+         Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
        </p>
 
        <p>

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index cd7b54d284660800fbcfe61ff856bbadfb39a7de..16b766446c39b88ff276b45871375a0d9aaca7f6 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ picking your way through this list.
 
 Released xxx, 2015.
 
-</p>
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>10.5</tag>
+  <item> Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
+  </item> </taglist></p>
 
 <sect id="3.9.6.0"> Version 3.9.6.0
 <p>