Package: sn Version: 0.3.8-4 Severity: grave (A note about the "grave" severity: I lost data. I can recover this data by clearing out the entire spool directory and refetching for the upstream server, but that's not really ideal, is it? It's not significantly different than a mail client deleting messages unexpectedly.)
In /etc/cron.daily/sn, there is a setting for the EXPIRETIME variable. I set this to "1y". Nonetheless, I discovered this morning that everything older than a week had been expired, because EXPIRETIME was overridden in the /etc/news/sn/debian_config file. There was no hint that variable was set in two different places. The installation config did not prompt for a default expire time, as it did for the other two values in debian_config. The value was specified in the cron.daily/sn file (which *is* a configuration file) with no warning that it might be overridden. README.Debian doesn't document the use of debian_config. Suggestions: 1. Remove EXPIRETIME from debian_config. Since you're not going to prompt for it during install, it shouldn't be in that file. 2. Remove the definition of EXPIRETIME from cron.daily/sn: at least then I'd have a hint that it was being set from somewhere else. Bonus points for including comment that tells the user where it should be set, rather than making them hunt for it. Regards, Steve -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages sn depends on: ii debconf [debconf 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii libc6 2.3.6-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii postfix [mail-tr 2.2.10-2 A high-performance mail transport ii psmisc 22.2-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime sn recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * sn/onlylocal: false * sn/runfrom: manually -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
