Package: smartmontools Version: 7.1-1 Severity: importantUsertags: varmisuse
The current system of shipping drivedb.h in /var has some downsides:
* debsums will complain if the user has ever ran update-smart-drivedb
* if smartmontools is updated to a newer Debian revision after the
user ran update-smart-drivedb, then the user's updates will be
overwritten and reverted by the update of the package.
Please install drivedb.h to /usr and then add code to the postinst that
will copy the /usr drivedb.h into /var when the /var drivedb.h is
either missing or is an older copy of the file.
Unfortunately, while the package contains a drivedb.h with a valid
Subversion $Id value, the file downloaded by update-smart-drivedb does
not contain a valid version number in the $Id value, so it will be hard
to determine if the downloaded file is newer or older than the /usr
drivedb.h. Looking at the code this seems to be because the default URL
does not contain the $Id header and only the "sf" and "trac" URLs do
contain correct $Id headers. Since git doesn't support $Id substitution
it would probably be a good idea for upstream to add a version number
to the file that isn't dependent on Subversion $Id substitution, which
could then be used for fixing this issue.
$ sudo apt -qq reinstall smartmontools
$ grep -F '$Id' /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h
{ "$Id: drivedb.h 5008 2019-12-28 21:40:37Z chrfranke $",
$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h
$ sudo update-smart-drivedb
/var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h updated from
branches/RELEASE_7_0_DRIVEDB
$ grep -F '$Id' /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h
{ "$Id$",
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800,
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700,
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages smartmontools depends on:
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii libc6 2.31-5
ii libcap-ng0 0.7.9-2.2
ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 10.2.0-19
ii libselinux1 3.1-2+b1
ii libstdc++6 10.2.0-19
ii libsystemd0 246.6-4
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
smartmontools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages smartmontools suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-2
ii curl 7.72.0-1
ii gpg 2.2.20-1
pn gsmartcontrol <none>
ii lynx 2.9.0dev.6-1
ii smart-notifier 0.28-6
ii wget 1.20.3-1+b3
-- no debconf information
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h (from
smartmontools package)
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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