On 01/08/2011 11:14 AM, Andy Green wrote:
Having a policy that alignment faults should be avoided itself is
fine,
but it is not a replacement for the good assertive action made by
changing the runtime policy.
To some extent I agree. But the policy should be aimed toward finding
and reporting these bugs, not toward glazing over the problem. To that
end, I am in favour of setting alignment to 1 rather than 3 as default.
In fact I don't think we get to this point
with so few fixups unless that was already the general policy not just
here but in the upstreams.
Any policy of not fixing things like this should arguably be grounds for
excluding the package from the distribution.
When the initscripts set the runtime action to be fixup + log, those
faults will actually become more visible to everyone and help detection
and removal of faults overall.
As I said, I was suggesting warn rather than fixup+warn for the extra
pressure to get such things fixed. I definitely agree with increasing
the visibility either way.
Gordan