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and subject line Bug#839920: fixed in sympa 6.2.16~dfsg-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #839920,
regarding sympa: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf
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Package: sympa
Version: 6.2.16~dfsg-1
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
This is forbidden by the policy, see
https://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 https://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/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf
cheers,
Andreas
sympa_6.2.16~dfsg-1.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: sympa
Source-Version: 6.2.16~dfsg-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sympa, 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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Emmanuel Bouthenot <[email protected]> (supplier of updated sympa package)
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:41:16 +0100
Source: sympa
Binary: sympa
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 6.2.16~dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Sympa team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Emmanuel Bouthenot <[email protected]>
Description:
sympa - Modern mailing list manager
Closes: 839587 839728 839755 839920
Changes:
sympa (6.2.16~dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Stefan Hornburg (Racke) ]
* Add version to libjs-query (>= 1.11) dependency as Foundation 5
needs this as minimum (Closes: #839755)
.
[ Emmanuel Bouthenot ]
* Fix bug with Sympa config file which was shipped as a conffile
(Closes: #839920)
* Add a patch (Thanks to Chris Lamb) to make the build reproducible
(Closes: #839587)
* Fix mysql-server dependency to default-mysql-server
* Add a NEWS file to inform about the major changes in Sympa 6.2
(Closes: 839728)
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