Your message dated Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:03:17 +0100 with message-id <20170124200317.hshpn4z5sqdyqhil@feivel> and subject line Re: Bug#653959: citadel-server was auto-selected and installed by dist-upgrade for what appears to be no good reason, and apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out all system changes has caused the Debian Bug report #653959, regarding citadel-server was auto-selected and installed by dist-upgrade for what appears to be no good reason, and apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out all system changes to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: citadel-server Version: wheezy Severity: serious Tags: security Justification: Policy 3.5 apt-get dist-upgrade decided to install citadel-server (no I didn't know what it was) for who-knows-what reason. Install created a new publicly listening service (never a good thing security-wise) Install created a new user & group an immediate apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out the user,group,extra directories in /var Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:00:04AM -0800, Joshua Hudson wrote: > Apt-get dist-upgrade should not be installing new auto-start publicly > listening services. >From the report I gather you updated quilt which suggests a mail transport agent and apt-get chose citadel to fulfill that suggestion. I recommend you not automatically install suggestions. There are features in quilt that need an MTA, although most users probably don't use them. That's why it's only a suggestion. I don't really see a bug here, certainly not in the citadel package. Therefore I close this report. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
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