Package: inn
Version: 1:1.7.2q-36
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
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inn.postrm will do
clean_var_lib() {
echo "Purging active file and history data..."
rm -f /var/lib/news/active* /var/lib/news/history* \
/var/lib/news/newsgroups
if [ -d /var/lib/news/ ]; then
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var/lib/news/
fi
}
on both "remove" and "purge".
This causes the active file and history data to be lost unless the user
manually made a backup prior to removing inn. The files contain valuable
data which cannot easily be reconstructed. Debian users do expect such
important state to be kept unless a package is purged. Deleting the files
on package removal will cause serious data loss for any user who
haven't read inn.postrm
Please do not call clean_var_lib() on "remove". It should only be called
on "purge".
I also believe the
echo "Remove the news spool in /var/spool/news yourself!"
is misplaced, but that can't be justified as critical since it doesn't
cause any data loss. But please also consider moving this line with
comments to the "purge" target.
Bjorn
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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