Your message dated Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:25:46 +0000 with message-id <e1tlehc-0006va...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688196: fixed in mimedefang 2.73-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #688196, regarding mimedefang: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/mimedefang to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: mimedefang Version: 2.73-1 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze-ignore User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: found -1 mimedefang/2.69-1 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/mimedefang cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: mimedefang Source-Version: 2.73-2 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of mimedefang, 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. Christoph Martin <christoph.mar...@uni-mainz.de> (supplier of updated mimedefang 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: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:40:36 +0200 Source: mimedefang Binary: mimedefang graphdefang Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.73-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.mar...@uni-mainz.de> Changed-By: Christoph Martin <christoph.mar...@uni-mainz.de> Description: graphdefang - grapher for MIMEDefang spam and virus logs mimedefang - e-mail filter program for sendmail Closes: 687344 688196 Changes: mimedefang (2.73-2) unstable; urgency=low . [ gregor herrmann ] * Fix "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/mimedefang": - debian/{dir,rules}: install configuration file under /usr/share - debian/mimedefang.postinst: copy it to /etc/default if necessary - debian/mimedefang.postrm: remove it on purge - debian/config: also handle no/false case (Closes: #688196) . [ Christoph Martin ] * Add MD_ALLOW_GROUP_ACCESS and MX_RECIPOK_PERDOMAIN_LIMIT to the reference configuration in /usr/share/mimedefang/mimedefang.conf and hint to NEWS (Closes: #687344) Checksums-Sha1: c047a1e0b3d6c7b12f517cd8ab31a67863e93b8e 1256 mimedefang_2.73-2.dsc 65a9d0d9cd741fa00dda277d6605e90d1db5b5ed 35424 mimedefang_2.73-2.diff.gz dd71e42f1cc94badcf35d5d4b40ae7f2d85d80e5 266072 mimedefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb f44dfd89e2f392e8cd7319d7bcb890636649b726 86500 graphdefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: 7ca6be58539b17f8fdbb15ca851dc416241e7c09900da44faa4ffc84e5248eaa 1256 mimedefang_2.73-2.dsc 9f5c784a3cc6c377649a584a7f44f5ab543f6161e38880d6666575d9d51f3f52 35424 mimedefang_2.73-2.diff.gz 1ad94d5a77edd4b93aafc84cd7f421476889c667840178ed6a51ab64f9c865eb 266072 mimedefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb 09115df4deff1f0d2160e5806094c27ec9cf3ed38f590a01979321cfd9218ecc 86500 graphdefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb Files: bf40cfa3606a3af17dd913998b81c8d0 1256 mail extra mimedefang_2.73-2.dsc d5a9121de5ac493e32585c3739bffa4b 35424 mail extra mimedefang_2.73-2.diff.gz 5adc1e004f129222445a8c40a5ebfa76 266072 mail extra mimedefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb 77de1b8f9a5bbd730d2d4b42b7368531 86500 mail extra graphdefang_2.73-2_amd64.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAlByvN0ACgkQgeVih7XOVJfxDACfZlEYga2uLLxi3cG9eC0jdffS zvwAnjNjXoJxlxM3Quwy0d+AGYWbE1a+ =5W4N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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