Package: cyrus-common
Version: 3.0.8-6
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
While fixing an unrelated issue we've noticed that old backup files remained
on our servers at /var/backups/cyrus-mboxlist.txt.gz and
/var/backups/cyrus-mboxlist.txt.gz.bak. Due to strict privacy regulations
we cannot keep personal data indefinitely without user consent or
objective/legal reasons. Responsible for these artifacts is the cronjob found
at /etc/cron.daily/cyrus-imapd. During normal operation the files above should
have been overwritten however a condition meant to check the version number
of Cyrus 3 fails:
File: /etc/cron.daily/cyrus-imapd
30: # check whether ctl_mboxlist and cyrus-hardwired-config.txt exist
31: # exit cleanly if they don't
32: [ -x /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist ] \
33: && [ -f /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-hardwired-config.txt ] \
34: || exit 0
35: # Check if Cyrus is installed (vs. removed but not purged)
36: grep -qE '^PACKAGE_VERSION[[:blank:]]+[30][.][245]' \
37: /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-hardwired-config.txt >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
exit 0
File: /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-hardwired-config.txt
PACKAGE_VERSION 3.0.8-6
USE_DIR_FULL 0
Since - at the very least on our systems - this cronjob didn't work since 2006
we would kindly suggest to either remove the cronjob altogether because it
doesn't appear to be all that useful or fix the version constraint.
We appreciate the ongoing support of the Debian community.
Kind regards,
Kim-A. Brodowski
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cyrus-common depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii db-upgrade-util 5.3.1+nmu1
ii db-util 5.3.1+nmu1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.71
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii e2fsprogs 1.44.5-1
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-transport-agent] 4.92-8+deb10u1
ii gawk 1:4.2.1+dfsg-1
ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libclamav9 0.101.2+dfsg-1
ii libcom-err2 1.44.5-1
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3
ii libical3 3.0.4-3
ii libicu63 63.1-6
ii libjansson4 2.12-1
ii libk5crypto3 1.17-3
ii libkrb5-3 1.17-3
ii libkrb5support0 1.17-3
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.47+dfsg-3
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-12
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.27+dfsg-1
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.27+dfsg-1
ii libsnmp30 5.7.3+dfsg-5
ii libsqlite3-0 3.27.2-3
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1c-1
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-28
ii libxapian30 1.4.11-1
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
ii libzephyr4 3.1.2-1+b3
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
ii netbase 5.6
ii perl 5.28.1-6
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages cyrus-common recommends:
ii cyrus-admin 3.0.8-6
ii cyrus-imapd 3.0.8-6
ii cyrus-pop3d 3.0.8-6
Versions of packages cyrus-common suggests:
ii apt-listchanges 3.19
ii cyrus-admin 3.0.8-6
pn cyrus-caldav <none>
ii cyrus-clients 3.0.8-6
pn cyrus-doc <none>
ii cyrus-imapd 3.0.8-6
pn cyrus-murder <none>
pn cyrus-nntpd <none>
ii cyrus-pop3d 3.0.8-6
pn cyrus-replication <none>
ii sasl2-bin 2.1.27+dfsg-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cyrus.conf changed [not included]
/etc/default/cyrus-imapd changed [not included]
/etc/imapd.conf changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
