Package: ucf
Version: 3.0025+nmu1
Severity: normal
Ucf allows a user to start a new shell to examine changes in
configuration file, but the user is given no information about where to
find a maintainer version of the file.
While testing a not yet released version of afterstep, ucf showed me with the
following dialog:
| A new version of configuration file /etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories
is available, but the |
| version installed currently has been locally modified.
|
|
|
| What do you want to do about modified configuration file
standard_categories?
I couldn't have the differences displayed because:
| The differences between the files are too large to display. |
so I chose the new shell option to compare the files manually. In
simillar situations, dpkg creates the .dpkg-new and .dpkg-old files,
but surprisingly ucf failed to do this - the /etc/X11/afterstep contained
only one file that matched the standard_categories name:
# ls -la /etc/X11/afterstep/*standard_categories*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112629 03-04 18:17 /etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories
I'm the maintainer of the afterstep package, so I know that new version of the
file
is included in /usr/share/afterstep/ucf directory (and ucf is called with the
`--three-way /usr/share/afterstep/ucf/standard_categories
/etc/X11/afterstep/standard_categories'
options), but how an ordinary user is supposed to know this?
Regards,
robert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii debconf 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ucf recommends no packages.
ucf suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ucf.conf changed [not included]
-- debconf information:
* ucf/show_diff:
* ucf/changeprompt_threeway: install_new
ucf/title:
* ucf/changeprompt: install_new
* ucf/conflicts_found:
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