Package: pdnsd Version: 1.2.7-par-1 Severity: serious pdnsd stopped responding to requests from tap0 interface after the package was updated. It appears to be a direct result of Debian policy violations.
> 10.7.2 Location > > Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside > in /etc. If there are several, consider creating a subdirectory of > /etc named after your package. > > If your package creates or uses configuration files outside of /etc, > and it is not feasible to modify the package to use /etc directly, > put the files in /etc and create symbolic links to those files from > the location that the package requires. pdnsd uses `/usr/share/pdnsd/pdnsd-resolvconf.conf'. To complicate the matters, there _is_ `/etc/pdnsd.conf' file, ignored by default package installation. I am sure that many new pdnsd users edit this file and are a bit surprised to see no result. > 10.7.3 Behavior > > Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior: > > * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and > > * configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed, > and only deleted when the package is purged. My /usr/share/pdnsd/pdnsd-resolvconf.conf was silently overwritten during package update. All local changes[1] were discarded. [1] server_ip = any; // access restricted by firewall rules (That is why tap0 interface got no responses.) IMO, pdnsd should use /etc/pdnsd.conf by default and preserve local changes to it. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pdnsd depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.25 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries Versions of packages pdnsd recommends: ii resolvconf 1.43 name server information handler pdnsd suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * pdnsd/conf: Use resolvconf -- vvv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
