Package: dbab Version: 1.3.2-2 (may be related to Bug #946977)
In dbab version 1.3.2-2, the one currently included in Debian stable (Buster), the automatic list update script try to access the remote server via plain http, though the server is now using https only, and a "permanent redirect" is issued. The HTML redirect message is written into the list file, replacing the old content despite of the error. This does not only makes dbab completely useless, but it breaks dnsmasq too, as it fails to start due to syntax error in included file: systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server... dnsmasq[10051]: dnsmasq: syntax check OK. dnsmasq[10052]: dnsmasq: bad option at line 1 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/dbab.adblock.conf dnsmasq[10052]: bad option at line 1 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/dbab.adblock.conf dnsmasq[10052]: FAILED to start up systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE In turn, this would likely render the whole system unuseable (at least, it breaks anything which relies on DNS name resolving). A quick fix could be to patch the file: /usr/sbin/dbab-get-list which is a simple shell script, replacing "http" with "https" in the server URL. Another option would be to update dbab to the new version (1.3.3-1, which is currently included in testing) also in stable/Buster. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dbab depends on: ii curl 7.64.0-4 ii dnsmasq 2.80-1 ii dnsutils 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1 ii perl 5.28.1-6 dbab recommends no packages. dbab suggests no packages.
