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and subject line Bug#688201: fixed in gcl 2.6.7-106
has caused the Debian Bug report #688201,
regarding gcl: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gcl
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Package: gcl
Version: 2.6.7-103
Severity: serious
Tags: squeeze-ignore
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Control: found -1 gcl/2.6.7-62
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
This is forbidden by the policy, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
10.7.3: "[...] The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the
configuration file a conffile. [...] This implies that the default
version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be
modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any
other time)."
Note that once a package ships a modified version of that conffile,
dpkg will prompt the user for an action how to handle the upgrade of
this modified conffile (that was not modified by the user).
Further in 10.7.3: "[...] must not ask unnecessary questions
(particularly during upgrades) [...]"
If a configuration file is customized by a maintainer script after
having asked some debconf questions, it may not be marked as a
conffile. Instead a template could be installed in /usr/share and used
by the postinst script to fill in the custom values and create (or
update) the configuration file (preserving any user modifications!).
This file must be removed during postrm purge.
ucf(1) may help with these tasks.
See also http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
In https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00412.html and
followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with
severity serious.
debsums reports modification of the following files,
from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
/etc/default/gcl
cheers,
Andreas
gcl_2.6.7-103.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: gcl
Source-Version: 2.6.7-106
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gcl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Camm Maguire <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gcl package)
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:52:10 +0000
Source: gcl
Binary: gcl gcl-doc
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 2.6.7-106
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
Description:
gcl - GNU Common Lisp compiler
gcl-doc - Documentation for GNU Common Lisp
Closes: 688201
Changes:
gcl (2.6.7-106) unstable; urgency=high
.
* Bug fix: "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gcl",
thanks to Andreas Beckmann (Closes: #688201).
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