On 12/25/2010 10:37 AM, Joost van Baal wrote: > >> As for the current bug, I'd like to point out that noip2 configuration and >> runtime state has always been kept in a binary "configuration" file. >> This doesn't match the Debian policy, and the current "abuse" of debconf >> is the result of a our deliberate attempt to workaround it. >> > As documented in Bug #430842, I just found out.
There's more background in bug #485725 [1]. This issue keeps coming up, our best intentions not withstanding. > However, this still is a > serious bug. Currently, someone who makes local changes to the content of the > configuration file /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf by running the noip2 client will > lose her changes at an upgrade. > > Currently, no-ip offers debconf support for managing username, password, > updating, matchlist, netdevice and forcenatoff. I assume this is generally > really sufficient to use no-ip. > Well, user changes will not be lost if the user performs them via dpkg-reconfigure. I'm not sure, however, if this is specifically documented anywhere. > An extra plain text conffile needs to be introduced, and the > advice in debconf-devel(7)'s "ADVANCED PROGRAMMING WITH DEBCONF - Config file > handling" needs to be followed. Users should be advised not to change > /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf directly. I believe this way one fully adheres to > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.2 . It won't be > trivial... > I was under the impression that the current situation conforms with the debian policy, but I may be wrong. Your suggested solution makes sense, and I agree with your assessment that it won't be trivial to implement. Note that noip2 already contains significant debian-specific patches, in order to support configuration via debconf, and supporting plain a text conffile will only add to this unhealthy situation. In any case, I don't have the time to tackle this, and no real motivation, since, as I mentioned, I'm quite happy using a different update client (namely, ddclient [2]). Thanks, Avi > Bye, > > Joost > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485725 [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ddclient
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