Hi, Because there seemed agreement by the maintainers in this bug, and on applying it early post lenny, I saw nothing prohibitive of actually making the change, to help the maintiners of this package. The trivial patch is attached. I have uploaded to DELAYED/10, so if there's something you don't like about it there's ample opportunity to intervene.
Kind regards, Thijs
diff -u portmap-6.0/debian/templates portmap-6.0/debian/templates
--- portmap-6.0/debian/templates
+++ portmap-6.0/debian/templates
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Template: portmap/loopback
Type: boolean
-Default: false
+Default: true
_Description: Should portmap be bound to the loopback address?
By default, portmap listens to all IP addresses. However, if this
machine does not provide network RPC services (such as NIS or NFS) to
diff -u portmap-6.0/debian/preinst portmap-6.0/debian/preinst
--- portmap-6.0/debian/preinst
+++ portmap-6.0/debian/preinst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
# interface, uncomment the following line (it will be
# uncommented automatically if you configure this
# through debconf).
-#OPTIONS="-i 127.0.0.1"
+OPTIONS="-i 127.0.0.1"
EOF
chmod 0644 $CONFFILE
}
diff -u portmap-6.0/debian/changelog portmap-6.0/debian/changelog
--- portmap-6.0/debian/changelog
+++ portmap-6.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+portmap (6.0-10.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * On new installation, default the question whether to bind to the
+ loopback interface only, to true (closes: #286301).
+
+ -- Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:34:12 +0200
+
portmap (6.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Merge from Ubuntu
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