Package: totd Version: 1.5.1-1.1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
/etc/resolvconf/update.d/totd created this: -------- ;; totd.conf generated by /etc/resolvconf/update.d/totd forwarder 192.168.1.254 -------- This wiped out my hand-created totd.conf with all of its custom configuration. This script causes serious dataloss--this is unrecoverable without recreating the file from scratch, and it will just repeat the same mistake again in the future. This is an abuse of the resolvconf mechanism. You must never rewrite conffiles in /etc; it's not permitted for conffiles by Debian Policy. The purpose of resolvconf is to provide a mechanism to update resolv.conf. It is not its purpose to extend this to rewrite configuration files. What was the original intent of this script? It should be either rewritten to behave sensibly, or removed entirely. Regards, Roger -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
