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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Sep 2005 21:59:05 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 07 14:59:03 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from host107.titaninternet.co.uk (mail.waveflex.net) [217.77.183.107] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1ED7wa-0006cL-00; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:59:00 -0700 Received: from vimes.homefarm ([81.178.99.36]) by waveflex.net with MailEnable ESMTP; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:03:19 +0100 Received: from stuart by vimes.homefarm with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ED7w0-0004Ea-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:58:24 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stuart Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: apache-perl ate my /etc/apache X-Mailer: reportbug 3.8 Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:58:23 +0100 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: "Stuart T. R. Rowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Package: apache-perl Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss actually causes serious data loss. Had apache installed. Installed apache-perl. dpkg --purge apache-perl . /etc/apache is deleted. W T F? How is it ever right for this directory to be deleted as part of a purge operation? So yeah silly me for not having my latest config backed up but....GAH! Stu. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-586tsc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages apache-perl depends on: ii apache-common 1.3.33-6 support files for all Apache webse ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libapache-mod-perl 1.29.0.3-6 integration of perl with the Apach ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libmagic1 4.12-1 File type determination library us ii libperl5.8 5.8.4-8 Shared Perl library ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap --------------------------------------- Received: (at 327139-done) by bugs.debian.org; 8 Sep 2005 02:01:41 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 07 19:01:41 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from loki.0c3.net [69.0.240.48] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1EDBjR-0006Qq-00; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:01:41 -0700 Received: from [203.49.196.168] (helo=[10.0.0.4]) by loki.0c3.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EDBip-0000Zl-KH; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:01:04 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:00:56 +1000 From: Adam Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050831) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#327139: apache-perl ate my /etc/apache References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Stuart Rowan wrote: > Package: apache-perl > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > actually causes serious data loss. Had apache installed. Installed > apache-perl. > dpkg --purge apache-perl . /etc/apache is deleted. W T F? How is it ever right > for this directory to be deleted as part of a purge operation? So yeah silly > me for not having my latest config backed up but....GAH! I just checked (both with a visual look at the code, and with an actual test of installing and purging packages), and purging "apache" removes /etc/apache, and purging "apache-perl" removes /etc/apache-perl. apache-perl does not and CAN not remove /etc/apache, with the code shipped in the package. That means that somewhere along the way you must have purged "apache" (perhaps when switching webservers, you purged apache, do you could get apache-perl listening on port 80, or something?) dpkg --purge specifically purges "everything, including configuration files", according to the manual. Surely, if you didn't want that, you would have "removed", not "purged"? ... 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