Your message dated Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:47:33 +0000 with message-id <e1tlcxx-0004iv...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688223: fixed in emacspeak 29.0-9 has caused the Debian Bug report #688223, regarding emacspeak: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/emacspeak.conf to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacspeak Version: 29.0-8 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze-ignore User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: found -1 emacspeak/29.0-6 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/emacspeak.conf cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: emacspeak Source-Version: 29.0-9 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of emacspeak, 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 emacspeak 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: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:08:44 +0200 Source: emacspeak Binary: emacspeak Architecture: source all Version: 29.0-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> Changed-By: gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Description: emacspeak - speech output interface to Emacs Closes: 688223 Changes: emacspeak (29.0-9) unstable; urgency=low . * QA upload. * Fix "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/emacspeak.conf": - debian/rules: don't install /etc/emacspeak.conf - debian/postrm: remove it during purge - debian/{postinst,config} already care about the rest (file creation, reading, updating) (Closes: #688223) Checksums-Sha1: d672219472d773b966026dee458dc12d95001f4c 1786 emacspeak_29.0-9.dsc ed455e51ab476b364b9986599a759e6362675d69 444045 emacspeak_29.0-9.debian.tar.gz bfaddedba341db46c1bff279aadb5da509af26bc 2264392 emacspeak_29.0-9_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: ad5f15fa944f337d7643b95d680dab8cbbb662da49c3f7e0ff8dc1d7df5b6c52 1786 emacspeak_29.0-9.dsc 239cc55533bd502023ee8e3aaae0cc7f84c582b9976265864c0655fbf6cf7f2a 444045 emacspeak_29.0-9.debian.tar.gz a040419e4fbe8218f073a2d1c9478be29a4dd6ed7cf27ade0ef4bb9440bd361f 2264392 emacspeak_29.0-9_all.deb Files: b776f95daf5d5ef91ad5429628f77330 1786 editors extra emacspeak_29.0-9.dsc acfbf31d01e9748de013456bc06aedcd 444045 editors extra emacspeak_29.0-9.debian.tar.gz ff083825b870a0f9fcef1fe8bbb2a1e9 2264392 editors extra emacspeak_29.0-9_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQdEwzAAoJELs6aAGGSaoGFrMP/RS1TRuu2A/0xiipFIu9p1lI +ioXLpJRe+6a4ALvmmG6B/pnGMBrsVarY9aLK4UPsMKrfcFYvGMA0K2Le8LrYB9z dtVMAX62YknXwcRMZEPklMKc0f3k+XRQn419qVT7orpaRWkLlFusGC5q7Gqtp8NI 0Y0RBVOCEmfqW00MaB1GQ51aF4idFkLV9yCfWJReGf/2Lydl65IYPu5m2DdcuwXA ty5l6wENmOnEXOgwGCrzZ8+9z//mBNTrjWj+axdS0ZeHUUVITHzl413lhkE+lZha Wv9n95k8h8GLmxRcH7V4x9zxWIezBLkzr2B3k9deITV952lsOchE6oI9oLAo6aDn K1U7SFMBYE09C0HHKBqZMdGdQBKdgaWYvo/DcpdE+GUk49x34rkK8e2XDHVmasvg bpq3uja0nlrlu7WiY+O+oPsaO3ACarBh5jAp4h5GQRHcsXTVZpjsgqYU98saHuL4 OWYy+EcogA2zcDyk8hePjH46KBEdzWSWoj3i0X7M+SyfXN0FaTDvieFiDBzXQRCi 4BJ27uZbt0bXDXoqEyTLO6gvbs55beWubsHuf51LcOtYXbE/ewWLtqIf1hl2vufa WOqwedlsXXeSrgGlYPJGad4urEChBDs3ZDbQ1t2FqG7DZB8iyYTKs58fGpUSIwkB LD1GsyPvX68pysMz8hij =vHe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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