Bug#553293: sendmail-bin: read-in-maintainer-script (postinst:78, postinst:95)
severity 553293 minor thanks These calls to read are in an unreachable function whose only invocation occurs after an unconditional 'exit'. Downgrading. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#553293: sendmail-bin: read-in-maintainer-script (postinst:78, postinst:95)
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts) for details. Too bad lintian doesn't do control flow analysis - this is left over code that was left for a potential conversion to debconf that never happened... It is *not* executed -- Rick Nelson ...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer* being struck by lightning. (By Matt Welsh) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#553293: sendmail-bin: read-in-maintainer-script (postinst:78, postinst:95)
On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts) for details. Too bad lintian doesn't do control flow analysis - this is left over code that was left for a potential conversion to debconf that never happened... It is *not* executed Please add a lintian override to the package - this would prevent other people from falling into the error of reporting this bug. manoj -- The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. G.B. Shaw Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#553293: sendmail-bin: read-in-maintainer-script (postinst:78, postinst:95)
Package: sendmail-bin Version: 8.14.3-9 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts) for details. ,[ 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts ] | Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting must be | done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the | Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher. | | Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of essential packages, | may fall back on another prompting method if no such interface is available when | they are executed. | | The Debian Configuration Management Specification is included in the | debconf_specification files in the debian-policy package. ` manoj -- Package-specific info: Ouput of /usr/share/bug/sendmail-bin/script: ls -alR /etc/mail: /etc/mail: total 1316 drwxr-sr-x. 7 smmtasmmsp 4096 Aug 17 10:54 . drwxr-xr-x. 231 root root 20480 Oct 29 13:26 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 24298 Jul 12 2007 70_sare_evilnum0.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 18190 Jul 12 2007 70_sare_random.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp13 Jul 12 2007 LocalIP -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 5 Jul 12 2007 LocalNames -rwxr-xr--. 1 root smmsp 12078 Mar 2 2009 Makefile -rw---. 1 root smmsp 4603 Mar 6 2009 access -rw-r-. 1 smmtasmmsp 12288 Mar 6 2009 access.db -rw---. 1 root smmsp 4571 Mar 6 2009 access.save -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 281 Jun 25 2007 address.resolve lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root smmsp10 Jul 5 2007 aliases - ../aliases -rw-r-. 1 smmtasmmsp 12288 Aug 28 15:02 aliases.db -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 10854 Jul 12 2007 asciispam.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp100721 Jul 12 2007 bogus-virus-warnings.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3684 Mar 2 2009 databases -rw-r-. 1 smmtasmmsp64 Jul 12 2007 default-auth-info -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 5657 Jun 25 2007 helpfile -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 61254 Jul 12 2007 junk -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp43 Jul 12 2007 local-host-names drwxr-sr-x. 2 smmtasmmsp 4096 Jul 5 2007 m4 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 0 Jul 12 2007 mailertable -rw-r-. 1 root smmsp 12288 Mar 2 2009 mailertable.db -rw-r--r--. 1 srivasta srivasta 68002 Aug 17 10:54 mimedefang-filter -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 12933 Dec 10 2007 mimedefang-filter.dpkg-dist -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 58990 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang-filter.grey -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 67042 Nov 20 2007 mimedefang-filter.reaver -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 67963 Jul 31 23:00 mimedefang-filter.save -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root smmsp 908 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang-monitor -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4130 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.conf.1003 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4130 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.conf.18984 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4130 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.conf.22199 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4130 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.conf.5828 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4130 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.conf.9654 -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 276 Jul 12 2007 mimedefang.pl.conf drwxr-xr-x. 2 root smmsp 4096 Mar 2 2009 peers -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp47 Jul 12 2007 relay-domains -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 15033 Jul 12 2007 sa-mimedefang.cf drwxr-xr-x. 2 smmtasmmsp 4096 Jul 12 2007 sasl -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 69076 Mar 2 2009 sendmail.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 69077 Mar 2 2009 sendmail.cf.old -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12237 Mar 2 2009 sendmail.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4935 May 22 2008 sendmail.mc -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4709 Jul 12 2007 sendmail.mc.new -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 4709 Jul 12 2007 sendmail.mc.old -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 149 Jun 25 2007 service.switch -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 180 Jun 25 2007 service.switch-nodns drwxr-sr-x. 2 smmtasmmsp 4096 Jul 12 2007 smrsh -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp47 Jul 12 2007 spamlist -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 43888 Mar 2 2009 submit.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43889 Mar 2 2009 submit.cf.old -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 2284 Mar 2 2009 submit.mc drwxr-xr-x. 2 smmtasmmsp 4096 Mar 25 2008 tls -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 56238 Jul 12 2007 tripwire.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root smmsp 9 Jul 12 2007 trusted-users -rw-r--r--. 1
