Package: courier-imap Version: 4.4.0-2 Severity: normal I've just upgraded Courier from a pre-lenny version. Of course I kept the existing config files during installation, planning to review them once the installation is complete and the mail server is up again.
One of the new settings is IMAP_UMASK in /etc/courier/imapd; the /etc/init.d/courier-imap script will use it to call "umask $IMAP_UMASK" without checking if it is set, causing this message if it is empty: Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/courier-imap ... Starting Courier IMAP server:0022 imapd. Notice the 0022 there, the output of an umask command without parameters. I'm not sure if this should be considered a bug, as the package is in some sense not properly configured, but on the other hand the sysadmin cannot be expected to take care of multiple, extensive additions to the configuration files of an important service during an upgrade. Unless changes are made to dpkg's handling of config files, so as to allow the admin to prepare upgraded configuration files and have them installed during the upgrade, all the pieces involved should use sensible default values for missing parameters or ignore them altogether. I hope you agree ;) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.7-netfinity (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/dash Versions of packages courier-imap depends on: ii courier-base 0.60.0-2 Courier mail server - base system ii courier-mta [mail-transport-a 0.60.0-2 Courier mail server - ESMTP daemon ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfam0 2.7.0-13.3 Client library to control the FAM ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime courier-imap recommends no packages. Versions of packages courier-imap suggests: ii courier-doc 0.60.0-2 Courier mail server - additional d ii courier-imap-ssl 4.4.0-2 Courier mail server - IMAP over SS ii mutt [imap-client] 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting M -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
