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and subject line Bug#1041332: fixed in mrtg 2.17.10-5+deb12u2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1041332,
regarding mrtg: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
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Package: mrtg
Version: 2.17.10-5+deb12u1
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Control: block 1040860 with -1
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
This is forbidden by the policy, see
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#configuration-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 https://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/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
My impression is that the unmodified new conffile (from bookworm) gets
overwritten with the unmodified old conffile (from bullseye), something
that shouldn't happen.
I'd suggest to withdraw the 2.17.10-5+deb12u1 bookworm-pu update and
revisit that for the next point release (there is no time left to fix
this properly before saturday). I have some idea how this could be
solved better, but I need to try that first.
cheers,
Andreas
PS: piuparts runs under DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
mrtg_2.17.10-5+deb12u1.log.gz
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Source: mrtg
Source-Version: 2.17.10-5+deb12u2
Done: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mrtg, 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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]> (supplier of updated mrtg
package)
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:59:14 -0300
Source: mrtg
Architecture: source
Version: 2.17.10-5+deb12u2
Distribution: bookworm
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]>
Closes: 1039103 1041332
Changes:
mrtg (2.17.10-5+deb12u2) bookworm; urgency=medium
.
* Changed a debconf template to honor Debian Policy (10.7.3), not
changing the place a conffile, discarding any user changes.
Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>. Consequently:
- debian/mrtg.config: changed a comment.
- debian/mrtg.postinst: dropped the first conditional block,
related to moving the /etc/mrtg.cfg to /etc/mrtg/.
- debian/mrtg.templates: updated to show a specific message to
users.
- debian/po/: ran debconf-updatepo to update all templates.
- Closes: #1039103, #1041332
* debian/po/:
- mrtg.templates: reviewed all messages. Thanks to Justin B Rye
<[email protected]> for all help in debian-l10n-english
list and to Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> for the suggestion
to ask for help in that list.
- Updated all translations. Thanks to all translators.
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