Still at this point, it deletes users custom data in /etc on install,
which is a huge problem.
I've argubaly made local changes including symlinking to my own
certificates. From what I can tell the dovecot package moved the
symlinks that I had and then re-wrote the certificate and key, breaking
other services.
Happening to have something called /etc/certs/imapd.pem should not cause
special behavior and cause it to move or delete a file that has an
unknown state of ownership or origin (auto-created or user created).
Thanks,
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Scott Dier wrote:
Package: dovecot-common
Version: 1.0.alpha3-2
I symlink in certificates that I pay for to make my ssl services work.
Packages should not remove user data in root and the dovecot-common
package overwrote my ssl key and certificate files. It appears that
the postinst tries to be cute and handle making new certificates and
migrating from imapd. This is far too much automated handholding and
must be disabled to prevent data loss.
See #330519 for an opposing view. Something must be done but we still
haven't decided exactly what. Lars suggested on debian-devel that there
should be some uniform way of handling the installation and removal of
certificates and people generally agreed that it was a good idea but
noone has actually gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
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