Package: ircii
Version: 20210314+really20190117-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/ircII
As far as I can tell (eg from strace and the manpage), /usr/bin/ircII
reads
/usr/share/ircII//script/global
and other files in /usr/share on startup, but not any of the files
in /etc. This is despite the package shipping /etc/irc/script/local
which says it is read.
strace shows
access("/u/testac/.irc/local", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/ircII//script/local", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("./local", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/u/testac/.irc/local.Z", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/ircII//script/local.Z", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("./local.Z", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
I conjecture:
* Once upon a time, the Debian package was patched to scan /etc/irc
as well as /usr/share.
* Accordingly, the Debian "global" loads "local" too, expecting to
find it in /etc.
* At some point the patches to do this rotted and/or were mistakenly
dropped.
I think the fix is to scan /etc.
I also noted that it scans the cwd, which I think is wrong. I have
filed a second bug about that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ircii depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1n-0+deb11u3
ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2
ircii recommends no packages.
ircii suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/irc/motd [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/irc/motd'
/etc/irc/script/local changed:
load cursor
load tabkey
set STATUS_USER * type /help for help
set EIGHT_BIT_CHARACTERS on
echo *** /etc/irc/script/local V0.5 for Debian finished. Welcome to ircII.
load /etc/irc/script/chiark
set lastlog 1000
-- no debconf information
