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and subject line Bug#380240: fixed in sn 0.3.8-5
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Package: sn
Version: 0.3.8-4
Severity: grave
(A note about the "grave" severity: I lost data. I can recover this
data by clearing out the entire spool directory and refetching
for the upstream server, but that's not really ideal, is it? It's
not significantly different than a mail client deleting messages
unexpectedly.)
In /etc/cron.daily/sn, there is a setting for the EXPIRETIME variable. I
set this to "1y". Nonetheless, I discovered this morning that everything
older than a week had been expired, because EXPIRETIME was overridden in
the /etc/news/sn/debian_config file.
There was no hint that variable was set in two different places. The
installation config did not prompt for a default expire time, as it did
for the other two values in debian_config. The value was specified in
the cron.daily/sn file (which *is* a configuration file) with no warning
that it might be overridden. README.Debian doesn't document the use of
debian_config.
Suggestions:
1. Remove EXPIRETIME from debian_config. Since you're not going to
prompt for it during install, it shouldn't be in that file.
2. Remove the definition of EXPIRETIME from cron.daily/sn: at least then
I'd have a hint that it was being set from somewhere else. Bonus points
for including comment that tells the user where it should be set, rather
than making them hunt for it.
Regards,
Steve
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages sn depends on:
ii debconf [debconf 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii postfix [mail-tr 2.2.10-2 A high-performance mail transport
ii psmisc 22.2-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
sn recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* sn/onlylocal: false
* sn/runfrom: manually
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: sn
Source-Version: 0.3.8-5
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sn, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
sn_0.3.8-5.diff.gz
to pool/main/s/sn/sn_0.3.8-5.diff.gz
sn_0.3.8-5.dsc
to pool/main/s/sn/sn_0.3.8-5.dsc
sn_0.3.8-5_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/sn/sn_0.3.8-5_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Chris Niekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated sn package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:31:16 +0200
Source: sn
Binary: sn
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.3.8-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Chris Niekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Chris Niekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites
Closes: 318600 336902 380240
Changes:
sn (0.3.8-5) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Expiretime was doubly defined, in /etc/cron.daily/sn and debian-config.
Remove it from the second. (Closes: #380240)
* Add Vietnamese translation, thanks to Clytie Siddall (Closes: #318600)
* Add Swedish translation, thanks to Daniel Nylander (Closes: #336902)
* Fix lintian warnings whenever possible.
* If newsspool is empty, cron.daily generates an error. Prevent that.
(reported in ubuntu).
* Upgrade to policy 3.7.2, no changes made based on the checklist.
Files:
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15d0059d29d9756d49a44a13e65923f4 33920 news optional sn_0.3.8-5.diff.gz
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