Bug#348726: Update overwrites shorewall.conf without detecting customizations

[Lorenzo Martignoni]

* Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 
> Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > Package: shorewall
> > Version: 3.0.4-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > 
> > The recent update to a3.0.4-1 presents the problem of installing a new 
> > /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file without making the admin aware of 
> > customization
> > being lost as is usually done (debconf issue - I guess).
> 
> If there were no customisations to shorewall.conf, the debconf prompt
> would never appear.  Whenever debconf asks about overwriting a file, it
> should be the system administrator's assumption that there are
> customisations.  I can't see how this is a bug.

Files installed by the package under /etc/ are trated as conffiles by 
dpkg automatically. On a package upgrade dpkg prompts you before
overwriting conffile only if you have customized them; if no local
customization has been made dpkg will silently replace them all.

-- lorenzo


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Bug#348726: Update overwrites shorewall.conf without detecting customizations

[Paul Gear]

Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Package: shorewall
> Version: 3.0.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> The recent update to 3.0.4-1 presents the problem of installing a new 
> /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file without making the admin aware of 
> customization
> being lost as is usually done (debconf issue - I guess).

If there were no customisations to shorewall.conf, the debconf prompt
would never appear.  Whenever debconf asks about overwriting a file, it
should be the system administrator's assumption that there are
customisations.  I can't see how this is a bug.

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Bug#348726: Update overwrites shorewall.conf without detecting customizations

[Johannes Graumann]

Package: shorewall
Version: 3.0.4-1
Severity: normal


The recent update to 3.0.4-1 presents the problem of installing a new 
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file without making the admin aware of 
customization
being lost as is usually done (debconf issue - I guess).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages shorewall depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy
ii  iproute   20041019-3 Professional tools to control the 
ii  iptables  1.3.3-2Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables adminis

Versions of packages shorewall recommends:
ii  wget  1.10.2-1   retrieves files from the web

-- debconf information:
  shorewall/upgrade_20_22:
  shorewall/upgrade_14_20:
  shorewall/upgrade_to_14:
  shorewall/warnrfc1918:
* shorewall/warn_about_klogd_floods:
  shorewall/dont_restart:
  shorewall/major_release:


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