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and subject line Re: Bug#673006: spf-tools-perl: Package overwrote existing
file without backing it up or asking
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regarding spf-tools-perl: Package overwrote existing file without backing it up
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Package: spf-tools-perl
Version: 2.007-1
Severity: important
I had a file /usr/sbin/spfd installed already on my system, and when I
installed this package it overwrote the existing file without backing
it up or at least asking whether it is ok to overwrite it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages spf-tools-perl depends on:
ii libmail-spf-perl 2.007-1 Perl implementation of Sender Poli
ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules [libversi 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Core Perl modules
spf-tools-perl recommends no packages.
spf-tools-perl suggests no packages.
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On Wed, 16 May 2012 20:18:05 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 23:41:36 +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> > >> I had a file /usr/sbin/spfd installed already on my system, and when I
> > >> installed this package it overwrote the existing file without backing
> > >> it up or at least asking whether it is ok to overwrite it.
> > > Where did this /usr/sbin/spfd come from?
> > >
> > > If on the other hand the file was locally installed or came from some
> > > package out of the Debian archive, then we can't do anything about
> > > it, I guess ...
> > It was locally installed... So what I observed is the expected behavior?
>
> I would say so, yes.
>
> At least in my understanding, /usr/sbin is managged by the package
> system, and local files should be places into /usr/local or /opt,
> also according to the FHS.
>
> (And if there were something wrong here, it would be in dpkg and not
> in this specific package.)
I'm closing this bug since there hasn't been any further
communication here.
Cheers,
gregor
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