Bug#349812: backup-manager: security update overwrote conffile

2006-01-25 Thread Christoph Martin
Package: backup-manager
Version: 0.5.7-1sarge1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Because /etc/backup-manager.conf is not marked as a conffile, 
the last security
update overwrote my configuration of /etc/backup-manager.conf. 
I configured an upload via ftp and also MB_POST_BACKUP_COMMAND.
The complete configuration is lost, so that no backup to the ftp
site was made.

The hint in README.Debian to not edit the .conf file and to use
debconf instead is useless, since not all options are handled by
debconf.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (99, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages backup-manager depends on:
ii  debconf   1.4.30.13  Debian configuration management sy
ii  gzip  1.3.5-10sarge1 The GNU compression utility

-- debconf information:
  backup-manager/upload-passwd: (password omitted)
  backup-manager/upload-key:
* backup-manager/name-format: long
  backup-manager/burning-device: /dev/cdrom
  backup-manager/upload-hosts:
  backup-manager/upload-dir: /var/archives/uploads
  backup-manager/upload-user-ftp:
* backup-manager/cron_frequency: daily
* backup-manager/directories: /etc /home /var/lib/dpkg
* backup-manager/blacklist: /var/archives
* backup-manager/filetype: tar.gz
* backup-manager/time-to-live: 30
  backup-manager/burning-maxsize: 650
* backup-manager/backup-repository: /var/archives
  backup-manager/burning-method: CDRW
  backup-manager/upload-user-scp-warning:
  backup-manager/transfert_mode: scp
* backup-manager/burning-enabled: false
* backup-manager/dump_symlinks: false
  backup-manager/upload-user-scp: bmngr
  backup-manager/cron_remove_deprecated: false
* backup-manager/want_to_upload: false


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Bug#349812: backup-manager: security update overwrote conffile

2006-01-25 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
tags 349812 + confirmed
thanks

* Christoph Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait :
 Because /etc/backup-manager.conf is not marked as a conffile, 
 the last security
 update overwrote my configuration of /etc/backup-manager.conf. 
 I configured an upload via ftp and also MB_POST_BACKUP_COMMAND.
 The complete configuration is lost, so that no backup to the ftp
 site was made.

This bug was closed in later versions of the package a while ago.
Sadly sarge's version is pretty old (0.5.7-1) regarding to sid's one
(0.6-1).

In later versions of tha pckage, ucf is used in order to prevent such
bad things.

I would suggest to use the backport in the meantime.

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Backup Manager   http://www.backup-manager.org


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