unarchive 338221 found 338221 0.68.2-1 severity 338221 important thanks I got bitten by this bug without doing any manual editing. What happened? I changed some settings using courierwebadmin. Then I upgraded the package. There was a new version of the configfile, which I didn't install. It was put in the directory with the .dpkg-dist extension. That triggered this bug.
IMO this is quite a lot worse than a wishlist bug, because it hits users who didn't do anything wrong. This means it is hard to find the problem and thus "has a major effect on the usability of a package". Therefore I'm marking it important. The proper solution would be for courier to specify a filename format which excludes backup files such as the one this bug was about and the one from dpkg. Such a format could be "only letters, numbers and underscores". If there are other places where courier uses .dpkg-dist files as valid config files, that would be a bug as well; those files are installed there for convenience after the administrator has explicitly stated that they don't want to use them. This is obviously a Debian issue, but upstream may agree that ignoring such "extra" files is a good idea in general. Thanks, Bas
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