Bug#1101456: not false positive

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:29:03 +0200 Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote:

Here's a scripted reproducer:

     mmdebstrap --variant=apt --chrooted-customize-hook='cd / && apt download javascript-common && dpkg 
-i ./javascript-common_*.deb && rm /etc/apache2/conf-available/javascript-common.conf && apt install -y 
apache2 && dpkg -i ./javascript-common_*.deb' stable /dev/null

I'll note this already happens with the version in stable.



A workaround should be:
     dpkg -i --reinstall ./javascript-common_*.deb
(Which should restore the missing conffiles.)

Raising severity to serious, as per my understanding of the policy, removing a conffile is a supported action, and maintainer scripts must not fail in this case.

That file is the core part of the package. I wonder what it is supposed to do if that is missing?

/etc/apache2/conf-available/javascript-common.conf



This looks to me like a user error.

Without this file, the package becomes useless (if using apache2). Does it really make sense to ignore this missing conf file in maintscripts?

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