Your message dated Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:02:49 +0000 with message-id <e1tijol-0004b2...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#688201: fixed in gcl 2.6.7-104 has caused the Debian Bug report #688201, regarding gcl: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gcl to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gcl Version: 2.6.7-103 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze-ignore User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: found -1 gcl/2.6.7-62 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/default/gcl cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: gcl Source-Version: 2.6.7-104 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of gcl, 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. Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> (supplier of updated gcl 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: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:32:52 +0000 Source: gcl Binary: gcl gcl-doc Architecture: source all i386 Version: 2.6.7-104 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> Changed-By: Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> Description: gcl - GNU Common Lisp compiler gcl-doc - Documentation for GNU Common Lisp Closes: 688201 Changes: gcl (2.6.7-104) unstable; urgency=high . * Bug fix: "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gcl", thanks to Andreas Beckmann (Closes: #688201). Checksums-Sha1: 8ac3138f23ea24592242d9f37f547a7a2fadbd0a 1182 gcl_2.6.7-104.dsc c69e265cd73645145c28a34f4cbfe7534a373046 5200222 gcl_2.6.7-104.debian.tar.gz 9c8dde9039ec41eb7385470c64f76aaa7f95e8a3 609804 gcl-doc_2.6.7-104_all.deb 1f4c6d07c109752b85d959c2548300be973a1d70 22264636 gcl_2.6.7-104_i386.deb Checksums-Sha256: 9ef6932e683304ec5d14a604b97cb2c7d836fb640e217cdc796ae70f7bbfba50 1182 gcl_2.6.7-104.dsc 63e68e5bab9a6e13fffbc34cf870bf9ca5dc6db5753c94561be49d3bbaa33348 5200222 gcl_2.6.7-104.debian.tar.gz 46925773b3701762b8557a2cc7a2c0069d062a8ffc70cb8914fdc041156b2de1 609804 gcl-doc_2.6.7-104_all.deb 499f9a63848be69662ca1a3b4f4c8cd7b660f86054233498fb8200016c512eca 22264636 gcl_2.6.7-104_i386.deb Files: bb677199a13b19d15b1da08b396894cc 1182 lisp optional gcl_2.6.7-104.dsc 45614ffcca75beb2576954c85925b6b9 5200222 lisp optional gcl_2.6.7-104.debian.tar.gz 1a35d2f6f32c6ff409faab787406316e 609804 doc optional gcl-doc_2.6.7-104_all.deb 95a3a6744b909e4820c8eec8b50f7fdb 22264636 lisp optional gcl_2.6.7-104_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBpyfMACgkQczG1wFfwRdxhSACcDF78HRjlrxdkBMU7v8ldNuXJ RsgAoMArw01D9x7t0ulkpmgGtpLjxxut =OfHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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