Your message dated Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:47:45 +0000 with message-id <e1tkeod-0000i9...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688378: fixed in gom 0.30.2-5.4 has caused the Debian Bug report #688378, regarding gom: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gom to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gom Version: 0.30.2-5.3 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze-ignore User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: found -1 0.30.2-5 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/gom cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: gom Source-Version: 0.30.2-5.4 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of gom, 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. gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> (supplier of updated gom 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: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:17:10 +0200 Source: gom Binary: gom Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.30.2-5.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Stephan Sürken <abs...@debian.org> Changed-By: gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Description: gom - Command line and interactive ncurses-based OSS audio mixer Closes: 688378 Changes: gom (0.30.2-5.4) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Fix "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gom": - don't ship /etc/default/gom, it's created in the postinst - update handling of /etc/default/gom in postinst: + create a new file if it doesn't exist + update the existing one otherwise (instead of always writing it from scratch, thus overwriting comments etc.) + don't put date in /etc/default/gom - remove in in postrm/purge (Closes: #688378) Checksums-Sha1: 24311484f968baae472ec01fd108e2d6191bf9d1 1836 gom_0.30.2-5.4.dsc 12bc2b4e5f3b618e9a2ee2bac85a3ce2f52a0911 25834 gom_0.30.2-5.4.debian.tar.gz 1cd8197af73549e7075cae08706af57c387f34f5 70802 gom_0.30.2-5.4_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: 1b68aedaafec1f5b7b2a8e79d71e2636ba5af8c734533af3096d1c78723b90ca 1836 gom_0.30.2-5.4.dsc b26cd5e224b761369a48d4ee2f81b92ab98691112da4fd8a6385c96eb831f7f3 25834 gom_0.30.2-5.4.debian.tar.gz 317692b7a42f55b65d4366318bd8d4bf90844cb360b8d243b4059109f97a0202 70802 gom_0.30.2-5.4_amd64.deb Files: dc34da27ac0458d618a74ecfc1bde280 1836 sound optional gom_0.30.2-5.4.dsc a49477b1f86d97449e83fa9a36bf4da8 25834 sound optional gom_0.30.2-5.4.debian.tar.gz 090926e077a60d5f81cc7c245d72ad51 70802 sound optional gom_0.30.2-5.4_amd64.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQbJ3OAAoJELs6aAGGSaoG47YP/jiA5L+8fJTEa1uOhcOIrGi5 dB007LjZ2ZgmTT9/Qk9URr1DKqu6Ikp3rwtdLOyPMEvWLHZ+MDw6/dR/JTxUXvOB 22pK4WN5eWzEOZ1Q9h6lEaH64QHgsVhbEu3KiECxMM2mT5l3K53P1N9MZbO9Ezr6 /yBE3j2GNw/c0zXO8qZReyNT3BfhPWhF1WoGUyKfrk7fIFfd5tAxTeM72DCO517i oNvnvEhqBg8hFwDm5n2alvUx8VKfnGwctlPhFNYDLL2Jgs1JtX666SLszwtnx90r agwW6RVQWJrSKLZwQzC154oElUTe/lwRdgI8d55oehDvPABkSi4hYohgbITKpx2H O0zpa9TVY1h/H2FavUiKEJzbc3JQQR7bbWXNRWWa6IVD1Wuy5iBaDtqUrUAPIfJP 4mLDiVkKslkzt/6TN8PHo6hPNQ0Tue6CjmRbUi8Rd9VvpN/l3F2UiR9LD1+kSjMi LUBQG6VkDe5ZMJMqDnVBFG4PJ6uwX/g93H1kjZQjzRYDSLer6Nc8RQyybGoBEnzE hw67Z4OavCjTZo+78LPS43ASrbTc6gU9dl4q/Bs5u1S+jP+V0QAxbhta3U4KIoAf 96VqTXAxqhH1BPBAyW0zhtOdpwb1Aob4jY3KviA5HZC//WKR4mrlSmbIcI3VJKyX 0n93QRx00gEANneJbTXb =A+Pr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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