Confusing description of package

[Marco Davids]

The description of this package seems confusing.

It says: "DNS root data including root zone...", while in fact it contains the root hints file, which is my mind is something different. The root zone is the zone file containing the TLD's: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db

[Mitchell Dzurick (mitchdz)]

Thanks for making this bug report and making Ubuntu better Marco!

Maybe the full description from the Debian archive makes more sense? I'm not familiar with this terminology so it's hard for me to make an accurate assessment here.

from Debian - https://packages.debian.org/sid/dns-root-data
This package contains various root zone related data as published by IANA to be used by various DNS software as a common source of DNS root zone data, namely:

 * Root Hints (root.hints)
 * Root Trust Anchors (root.key, root.ds)

Adding this to server-triage-discuss to get some more thoughts on this.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Marco,
as Mitchell said - it seems you are right and the full description is closer to what it already is.

But as a forecast - this is one of such cases where nobody will reject it as it is right. But also its severity is so low that everyone always has something else that is more important.

Furthermore this isn't a case that would allow to deviate from Debian adding some overhead to re-merge with Delta every now and then. I'd suggest that this would best be fixed in Debian (which has the same problem) and automatically synced over to Ubuntu.
Hence I wanted to ask if you could please file a bug with Debian as well? Thanks in advance!

There actually is already another bug asking for a bit of more clarity https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995890 in docs - and that is rather close to description. Up to you, but it might be better to chime in there asking for a slight wording update (over creating a completely new bug) as part of that overhaul.

If you end up chiming in there or creating a new issue, please report back here with the bug number so we can track when and how it would be resolved.

[Marco Davids (mdavids)]

Op 26-02-24 om 07:35 schreef Christian Ehrhardt :

> I'd suggest that this would best be fixed in Debian (which has the same problem) and automatically synced over to Ubuntu.
> Hence I wanted to ask if you could please file a bug with Debian as well? Thanks in advance!

Yes, you are right. Should have done that in this first place:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064829.
(including an annoying typo in the subject... 'shot' should have been
'short')

Thanks!

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