On 28 February 2014 10:36, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: maradns > Version: 2.0.09-1 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > > Hi, > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed the piuparts > upgrade test because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then > prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. > But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt > shows up in the first place, as there was nobody modifying this conffile > at all, the package has just been installed and upgraded... > > This is a violation of policy 10.7.3, see > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3, > which says "[These scripts handling conffiles] must not ask unnecessary > questions (particularly during upgrades), and must otherwise be good > citizens." > > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling should help with figuring > out how to do this properly. > > In http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00675.html and > followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with > severity serious. > > >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > Setting up maradns (2.0.09-1) ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/maradns ... > > Configuration file '/etc/maradns/mararc' > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : start a shell to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** mararc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing package > maradns (--configure): > EOF on stdin at conffile prompt > Errors were encountered while processing: > maradns > > > To fix this, one has probably to undo modifications performed > on the conffile by the maintainer scripts in wheezy. >
I am on it. It is a bug that emerged as a side effect of closing [1], where previous maintainer modified config files. So apparently I have not fixed it completely. So if I understand this correctly if I fix this, I will be back with [1], because now I do not modify conffiles, just copy them from upstream as they are. If I revert to modifying the conffile, I will still be violating 10.7.3 again. Undoing modifications performed in wheezy is what I do now. I need somebody to talk me through this, Ill talk to befriended DD. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710903 -- Pozdrawiam, Dariusz Dwornikowski, Assistant Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ddwornikowski/ room 2.7.2 BTiCW | tel. +48 61 665 29 41 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
