Your message dated Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:32:30 +0000 with message-id <e1tijr4-00087t...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688562: fixed in cxref 1.6d-3 has caused the Debian Bug report #688562, regarding cxref: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/cxref/config to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cxref Version: 1.6d-2 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze-ignore User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles. This is forbidden by the policy, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-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 http://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/cxref/config cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: cxref Source-Version: 1.6d-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of cxref, 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 688...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> (supplier of updated cxref package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:11:17 +0000 Source: cxref Binary: cxref cxref-doc cxref-emacs Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1.6d-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> Changed-By: Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> Description: cxref - Generates LaTeX and HTML documentation for C programs cxref-doc - Generates LaTeX and HTML documentation for C programs cxref-emacs - Generates LaTeX and HTML documentation for C programs Closes: 688562 Changes: cxref (1.6d-3) unstable; urgency=high . * Bug fix: "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/cxref/config", thanks to Andreas Beckmann (Closes: #688562). Checksums-Sha1: c1f9dbc31fd432576df88dae1a68b113fa91fdc3 1222 cxref_1.6d-3.dsc 43c2225c7f78826ecaecf137e9995689a6c6544a 32355 cxref_1.6d-3.debian.tar.gz 476dee1a1c6d7bb87833f7cacbdaba692f9a5ab4 787750 cxref-doc_1.6d-3_all.deb 048cfce27b4dabe81ae4e7283c962a83940265fe 16064 cxref-emacs_1.6d-3_all.deb 7b240fade324efa769a3db98aa6b27f1904b9f5c 509178 cxref_1.6d-3_i386.deb Checksums-Sha256: 4be1b302149c6c2077da608a3cff1e05b8b53c496252fd82ac0ca5258c45aea0 1222 cxref_1.6d-3.dsc 8fe83d91970ffedd6ed5163d22c71cdfcac410963511ef289bec0203afffe3ca 32355 cxref_1.6d-3.debian.tar.gz 523372d100b815873ce709bdff37ae723624f40a6c723dc817236cbecf8c2b5f 787750 cxref-doc_1.6d-3_all.deb 57391b06096ac307e9b69e3588fe93a0f2e260c28494d1b428ba625c264cb965 16064 cxref-emacs_1.6d-3_all.deb ea7eebda38463112d07f0192bb048a7c18dbc70e7807fd4914b6a1f7233dca40 509178 cxref_1.6d-3_i386.deb Files: c799b4ec2409ab2d0a4ddff83fd2b4a9 1222 devel optional cxref_1.6d-3.dsc 5455216045e56d1a71d07756280f8d4e 32355 devel optional cxref_1.6d-3.debian.tar.gz 2f034bf5f585456d823d16b669dd9896 787750 doc optional cxref-doc_1.6d-3_all.deb 29216e9f7aad4aac1fe972c799e68b8d 16064 editors optional cxref-emacs_1.6d-3_all.deb 6ef0d1b1c05039d9f58bff1836369c94 509178 devel optional cxref_1.6d-3_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBp0D0ACgkQczG1wFfwRdxysACcCxWBhJA2h6dSpnszShgrlpbQ saIAmgNQd9xTrOOuFvcXp18g6BsMkdGf =kI0t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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