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Apport currently provides a very useful attach_conffiles() function that
"Attaches information about any modified or deleted conffiles" for a
specified package.
However, if this function is called by an apport hook as a non-root user
and if the package being queried contains any conffiles which are not
readable by a non-root user, an IOError exception is generated.
This can be dealt with by catching the exception in the apport hook, but
it has the side-effect of stopping an apport hook detecting reliably
whether any of a packages conffiles have been modified whereas it
should be possible to atleast check those conffiles the user does have
read permission for.
Ideally, get_modified_conffiles() would handle the IOError exception and
mark the unreadable conffiles in some way, but crucially handle the
conffiles the user can read as expected.
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
Status: Fix Released
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provide ability for apport to detect modified conffiles reliably when not
running as root
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1154536
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