Your message dated Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:38:14 +0000
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and subject line Bug#845765: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #776118,
regarding nagios3-cgi: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not 
modified by the user: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg
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Package: nagios3-cgi
Version: 3.4.1-3+deb7u1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 nagios3

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
https://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."

https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling should help with figuring
out how to do this properly.

In https://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.

This has been observed on an upgrade test from lenny to squeeze to
wheezy ...

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Setting up nagios3-cgi (3.4.1-3+deb7u1) ...
  
  Configuration file `/etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg'
   ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
   ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
     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.
  *** cgi.cfg (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing nagios3-cgi 
(--configure):
   EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
  Setting up nagios3-core (3.4.1-3+deb7u1) ...
  configured to not write apport reports
  invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start.
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nagios3:
   nagios3 depends on nagios3-cgi (= 3.4.1-3+deb7u1); however:
    Package nagios3-cgi is not configured yet.
  
  dpkg: error processing nagios3 (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   nagios3-cgi
   nagios3


cheers,

Andreas

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Version: 3.5.1.dfsg-2.2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package nagios3 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 https://bugs.debian.org/845765

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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