Your message dated Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:17:28 +0000
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and subject line Bug#688435: fixed in dotlrn 2.5.0+dfsg-6+wheezy2
has caused the Debian Bug report #688435,
regarding dotlrn: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/dotlrn/config.tcl
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Package: dotlrn
Version: 2.5.0+dfsg-8
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
This is forbidden by the policy, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
10.7.3: "[...] The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the
configuration file a conffile. [...] This implies that the default
version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be
modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any
other time)."
Note that once a package ships a modified version of that conffile,
dpkg will prompt the user for an action how to handle the upgrade of
this modified conffile (that was not modified by the user).
Further in 10.7.3: "[...] must not ask unnecessary questions
(particularly during upgrades) [...]"
If a configuration file is customized by a maintainer script after
having asked some debconf questions, it may not be marked as a
conffile. Instead a template could be installed in /usr/share and used
by the postinst script to fill in the custom values and create (or
update) the configuration file (preserving any user modifications!).
This file must be removed during postrm purge.
ucf(1) may help with these tasks.
See also http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
In https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00412.html and
followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with
severity serious.
debsums reports modification of the following files,
from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
/etc/dotlrn/config.tcl
cheers,
Andreas
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Source: dotlrn
Source-Version: 2.5.0+dfsg-6+wheezy2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dotlrn, 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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hector Romojaro <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dotlrn package)
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:12:07 +0200
Source: dotlrn
Binary: dotlrn
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.5.0+dfsg-6+wheezy2
Distribution: testing-proposed-updates
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Hector Romojaro <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Hector Romojaro <[email protected]>
Description:
dotlrn - e-learning portal system based on OpenACS
Closes: 688435
Changes:
dotlrn (2.5.0+dfsg-6+wheezy2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low
.
* Fixed local config management. Closes: #688435
- Updated README.Debian
- Autogenerated config.local file with database
local settings.
- Added dotlrn.preinst file with a fix for old
postinst modified config.tcl.
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