Your message dated Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:47:39 +0000
with message-id <e1si9pt-0008vh...@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#678412: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #672542,
regarding totd: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/totd blows away /etc/totd.conf,
destroying my configuration
to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: totd
Version: 1.5.1-1.1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
/etc/resolvconf/update.d/totd created this:
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;; totd.conf generated by /etc/resolvconf/update.d/totd
forwarder 192.168.1.254
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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
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.5.1-1.1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package totd has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/678412
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@debian.org.
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Mark Hymers (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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