You have been subscribed to a public bug: Apport currently provides a very useful attach_conffiles() function that "Attaches information about any modified or deleted conffiles" for a specified package.
However, if this function is called by an apport hook as a non-root user and if the package being queried contains any conffiles which are not readable by a non-root user, an IOError exception is generated. This can be dealt with by catching the exception in the apport hook, but it has the side-effect of stopping an apport hook detecting reliably whether any of a packages conffiles have been modified whereas it should be possible to atleast check those conffiles the user does have read permission for. Ideally, get_modified_conffiles() would handle the IOError exception and mark the unreadable conffiles in some way, but crucially handle the conffiles the user can read as expected. ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) Status: Fix Released -- provide ability for apport to detect modified conffiles reliably when not running as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1154536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp