Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.47 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
I have a network where /etc/apt/preferences (and a lot of other files in /etc on various machines) are symlinked to a NFS-mounted drive so they can be changed globally. Unfortunately, the cron.daily file for apt-listbugs doesn't take this into account, and so when it makes a backup of the file before changing it, only creates a backup symlink, then edits the first file, destroying all of the contents in the master. If you had a complex preferences file, and you don't have a backup, this is very, very bad. If you don't notice it before the next night's autoupgrade sequence suddenly tries to update a bunch of machines on your network to unstable, breaking them all, that is even worse. I managed to avoid this fate only barely. Eventually, someone else isn't going to be as fortunate, and become very unhappy with Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.erdos Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on: ii apt 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.1 modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1 ii libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 0.11-5 Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8 ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.2-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ii libxml-parser-ruby1.8 0.6.8-1 Interface of expat for the scripti ii ruby 1.8.1-8 An interpreter of object-oriented -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
