On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:23:39PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 17:07:09 +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > > > Becas right now, with the current code, changes gets overwritten by debconf > > on package (re)configuration. > > > That sounds like a serious bug in the maintainer scripts then. Why not > fix that?
I've work quite some time today trying to fix that and will upload new Snort packages shortly. This behaviour was there, actually, since at least the 1.6.3a-4 release (as early as january 2001). It was somewhat hidden since it affected only changes in a *part* of the configuration file and now moving it out of the configuration file to a separate file has highlighted it. It's surprising that nobody has reported it before and I have not noticed this earlier myself. In any case, the maintainer scripts need an important rewrite. There's too much duplicated code and the handling of some options should be done by snort-common and not by the binary snort, snort-pgsql or snort-mysql packages. Oh wel... Regards Javier
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