Your message dated Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:47:28 +0000 with message-id <e1tjkc4-0002gm...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688890: fixed in apt-cacher 1.7.6 has caused the Debian Bug report #688890, regarding apt-cacher: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/apt-cacher to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.5 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles. This is forbidden by the policy, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files 10.7.3: "[...] The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration file a conffile. [...] This implies that the default version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time)." Note that once a package ships a modified version of that conffile, dpkg will prompt the user for an action how to handle the upgrade of this modified conffile (that was not modified by the user). Further in 10.7.3: "[...] must not ask unnecessary questions (particularly during upgrades) [...]" If a configuration file is customized by a maintainer script after having asked some debconf questions, it may not be marked as a conffile. Instead a template could be installed in /usr/share and used by the postinst script to fill in the custom values and create (or update) the configuration file (preserving any user modifications!). This file must be removed during postrm purge. ucf(1) may help with these tasks. See also http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling In https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00412.html and followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with severity serious. debsums reports modification of the following files, from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): /etc/default/apt-cacher cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: apt-cacher Source-Version: 1.7.6 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of apt-cacher, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 688...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> (supplier of updated apt-cacher package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:24:54 +0100 Source: apt-cacher Binary: apt-cacher Architecture: source all Version: 1.7.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> Changed-By: Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> Description: apt-cacher - Caching proxy for Debian package and source files Closes: 688890 689208 Changes: apt-cacher (1.7.6) unstable; urgency=low . * Fix missing argument to $r->header when disk_usage_limit is configured (closes: #689208). * Use (and depend on) ucf to manage debconf changes to /etc/default/apt-cacher (closes: #688890). Checksums-Sha1: cbe659b245d139b87d037d1a19433a6abfaa174a 857 apt-cacher_1.7.6.dsc f08fc4624c1274f9260ddf3bc2d222076e194939 105907 apt-cacher_1.7.6.tar.gz c28d4fb22d4020b769655af88e41a850b392e5a5 104266 apt-cacher_1.7.6_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: 1f1b4e5d9e58bbe9b365b48d41221be21347e432fde708e17d24baf9fb2d6ac2 857 apt-cacher_1.7.6.dsc 23c3cc952eca27d9b734edd09805983717c0ccccac46e560b769255480cc4ad9 105907 apt-cacher_1.7.6.tar.gz b23d94bc860104fbe4a108481347e60a18cf9c89dc7e4a53c7e65004ae03ca4b 104266 apt-cacher_1.7.6_all.deb Files: 61897b5ff8353d405208426e6bc13f6c 857 net optional apt-cacher_1.7.6.dsc 0e80672a0f71dc80db205011efe64558 105907 net optional apt-cacher_1.7.6.tar.gz 3a92fe77148963eec34920ff714465fa 104266 net optional apt-cacher_1.7.6_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFQa/mR4QZIHu3wCMURAoPnAKCAQAYE1f+xNrwfVUoaGDK0+184vgCeO+Ps wnnR3TCHd6rkeALQyAxvK8A= =zHTR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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