On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 03:17:12PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > Package: arpwatch
> > Version: 2.1a15-7
> > Severity: grave
> > Tags: patch
> > Justification: renders package unusable
>
> I do not think this severity is warranted, ...
It is indeed not warranted with the information that you kindly provided.
I marked this as "grave" because after an update from Debian 9 to 10
"arpwatch" was no longer working. Even a "systemctl restart arpwatch"
couldn't bring the service back to life.
> ... this is because of, the following as from /etc/default/arpwatch
This file was already present on my system and didn't get overwritten
by the update from Debian 9 to 10.
> # when using systemd you have to enable arpwatch explicitly for each interface
> # you want to run it on by running:
> # systemctl enable arpwatch@IFACE
> # systemctl start arpwatch@IFACE
[...]
> by the sysvinit service.
>
> Does this help?
That does indeed solve the problem. Thank you very much.
So the real bug here seems to be that the APT changes don't mention
this updated systemd configuration mechanism. And the existing comment
in "/etc/default/arpwatch" will not be visible on update systems,
at least not if the configuration file was change.
Kind regards
--
Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/
