Your message dated Wed, 20 May 2020 07:19:38 +0000
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and subject line Bug#477773: fixed in ucf 3.0040
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regarding ucf: should respect dpkg-divert
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Package: ucf
Severity: normal
When a configuration file managed by ucf is diverted (using dpkg-divert),
ucf attempts to modify the original path for the conffile, rather than the
diverted path.
I realize that using dpkg-divert on configuration files is not a
particularly common operation at the moment, but I think that may change
in the future (http://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages suggests a workaround
for this problem of diverting the ucf source file, but I think that
solution reaches too far into the ucf-managed package's internals).
I think correct behavior here is for ucf to follow diversions so that it
updates the undiverted version of the configuration file (this is what
would happen with a conffile), rather than fighting with the package or
local administrator that diverted the configuration file.
The tricky issue in implementing this feature is that the ucf interface
doesn't specify what package is running ucf as, so there isn't a good way
to achieve correct behaviour with diversions by packages.
I think the best way to do this would be to add an option -P<package name>
that causes ucf to ignore diversions by <package name>, e.g. for the case
that ucf is in the postinst script for <package name>. Most packages
would not need to specify this option (in particular, the ones that need
to do so are precisely those that divert and then replace a configuration
file with a ucf-managed version).
If a patch to follow diversions and add an option to specify the package
name used for diversion exceptions would be acceptable to you, I'd be
willing to write one.
Thanks,
-Tim Abbott
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: ucf
Source-Version: 3.0040
Done: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ucf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
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.
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Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ucf package)
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 23:47:10 -0700
Source: ucf
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0040
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Closes: 477773 926661 930130 949314 952448
Changes:
ucf (3.0040) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* This is a feature add release, for the most part
* Bug fix: "Add support for creating files with default SELinux
context", thanks to Christian Göttsche (Closes: #949314).
* Bug fix: "please consider merge request #1 adding
ucf_helper_functions", thanks to Marc Haber (Closes: #930130).
* Bug fix: "ucf has /bin/bash shebangs but does not depend on bash",
thanks to James Le Cuirot (Closes: #952448). It actually does not need
bash, so this was easy to do.
* Bug fix: "should respect dpkg-divert", thanks to Timothy G Abbott
(Closes: #477773).
* Bug fix: "[INTL:nl] Dutch translation of debconf messages", thanks to
Frans Spiesschaert (Closes: #926661).
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