Package: inn2 Version: 2.5.3-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
having done a fresh installation of a new inn2 site, I ran into some
small problems with the default installation concerning actsync and
simpleftp.
### symptoms
When actsync tries to get a remote active file via FTP, it breaks with
the error message, that ${exec_prefix}/bin/simpleftp can't be executed.
### problem 1: typo in /usr/lib/news/innshellvars
In /usr/lib/news/innshellvars, $GETFTP is declared like this:
GETFTP='${exec_prefix}/bin/simpleftp'
Because of the '', ${exec_prefix} is not evaluated.
"" should be used instead.
### problem 2: there is no simpleftp
$GETFTP should expand to /usr/lib/news/bin/simpleftp, but the inn2
package does not provide that file.
It does not provide the simpleftp(1) manpage that is referenced by the
actsync(1) and actsyncd(1) manpages, either.
`dpkg -L inn2 | grep simpleftp` comes up empty.
### workaround
Adding GETFTP=/usr/bin/wget to /etc/news/innshellvars.local (and
making /etc/news/innshellvars.local executable, as described in the
file) fixes the symptoms. actsync can successfully fetch files via
FTP.
### fix
The simpleftp script and simpleftp manpage should be added to the inn2
package. The GETFTP entry in /usr/lib/news/innshellvars should be
changed to "${exec_prefix}/bin/simpleftp"
Alternatively, the references to the simpleftp manpages could be
removed from actsync(1) and actsyncd(1). The GETFTP default could be
set to /usr/bin/wget, which seems to be a reasonable replacement for
simpleftp. The wget package is already a suggested dependency of the
inn2 package.
Regards,
Christian
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