Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-09 Thread Paul Gevers
On 09-10-14 02:17, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: Thanks for the careful response. And no, as mentioned above, I didn't mean to use dpkg-statoverride itself. dbconfig-common uses debconf and ufc to manage the configuration files. However,

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes (Re: Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride): On 07-10-14 15:40, Ian Jackson wrote: Also I don't see in your references an explanation from anyone as to why dbconfig-common does this. I you mean with why: why is it implemented this way than

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 08-10-14 13:58, Ian Jackson wrote: Paul Gevers writes (Re: Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride): On 07-10-14 15:40, Ian Jackson wrote: Also I don't see in your references an explanation from anyone as to why dbconfig-common does this. I you mean with why

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes (configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride): I am looking into dbconfig-common RC bug 720517 [1] and I was wondering what the general idea is of maintainer scripts changing the permissions and/or owners of configuration files and the use of dpkg-statoverride. The

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Gevers
On 07-10-14 15:40, Ian Jackson wrote: Also I don't see in your references an explanation from anyone as to why dbconfig-common does this. I you mean with why: why is it implemented this way than that is exactly the question that I am asking myself looking at the code, if you mean why does

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: I am trying to come up with a patch against dpkg-statoverride that sets the ownership and permissions upon creation, but not upon updates. This really doesn't look like a good idea. In fact, it may well introduce very confusing and likely dangerous

Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, I am looking into dbconfig-common RC bug 720517 [1] and I was wondering what the general idea is of maintainer scripts changing the permissions and/or owners of configuration files and the use of dpkg-statoverride. I myself find it unacceptable that updating a package changes the