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and subject line Bug#707655: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #689578,
regarding sysklogd: Do not ship /etc/syslog.conf as conffile (policy 10.7.4
Sharing configuration files)
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Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.5-6.2
Severity: serious
Hi
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:07:12AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Package: sympa
> > Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-4
> > Severity: serious
> > User: debian...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: piuparts
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
> > And even worse, it's a conffile owned by a different package.
> > This is forbidden by the policy, see
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
> >
> [..]
> >
> > debsums reports modification of the following files,
> > from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> >
> > /etc/syslog.conf
>
> I had a look at this bugreport for sympa. This indeed seems to be a
> problem if one uses sysklogd. sysklogd provides
> /usr/sbin/syslog-facility and in sympa's postinst we have:
>
> ----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
> ## Setup a syslog facility
> if which syslog-facility >/dev/null 2>&1 \
> && [ -e /etc/syslog.conf ] \
> && ! grep -q "/var/log/sympa.log" /etc/syslog.conf \
> && syslog-facility set all /var/log/sympa.log > /etc/sympa/facility \
> && [ -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd ]; then
> if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> invoke-rc.d sysklogd reload
> else
> etc/init.d/sysklogd reload
> fi
> fi
> ----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
>
> The problematic call is syslog-facility set all /var/log/sympa.log
> which will add a
>
> local0.* /var/log/sympa.log
>
> to /etc/syslog.conf.
During looking at RC bugs for wheezy I noticed the bugreport on
sympa[1].
[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/689578
Now, if sympa is used with sysklogd, sympa is modifying a conffile.
sysklogd ships on one side /etc/syslog.conf ans conffile but also
provides a binary /usr/sbin/syslog-facility which might be used to
setup or remove LOCALx facilities to /etc/syslog.conf.
If now this is invocated e.g. by sympa in maintainers script this
causes a sympa to motify a conffile violating policy 10.7.3.
If I'm reading policy 10.7.4[2] correctly then, sysklogd must provide
/etc/syslog.conf *not* as conffile but as configuration file. It
already provides as owning package a "program that the other packages
may use to modify the configuration file".
[2]: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.4
Regards,
Salvatore
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Version: 1.5-6.2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sysklogd 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/707655
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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