Bug#688199: bacula-director-sqlite3: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup
tags 688199 + pending -- В Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:12:48 +0400 Alexander Golovko alexan...@ankalagon.ru пишет: Hi! Thank you for report! This is a result of our fix #656912. We should switch this file to ucf control or revert this changes. Fixed in git master branch. This changes will be included in next upload. But changes in config file are not dangerous for users. В Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:46:44 +0200 Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de пишет: Package: bacula-director-sqlite3 Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org 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/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup cheers, Andreas -- with best regards, Alexander Golovko email: alexan...@ankalagon.ru xmpp: alexan...@ankalagon.ru signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#688199: [pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#688199: bacula-director-sqlite3: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup
Hi! Thank you for report! This is a result of our fix #656912. We should switch this file to ucf control or revert this changes. But changes in config file are not dangerous for users. В Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:46:44 +0200 Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de пишет: Package: bacula-director-sqlite3 Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org 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/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup cheers, Andreas -- with best regards, Alexander Golovko email: alexan...@ankalagon.ru xmpp: alexan...@ankalagon.ru signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#688199: bacula-director-sqlite3: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup
Package: bacula-director-sqlite3 Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org 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/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup cheers, Andreas bacula-director-sqlite3_5.2.6+dfsg-3.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
