Your message dated Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:02:40 +0000 with message-id <e1tl4je-0008mi...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#696202: fixed in php-horde-role 1.0.1-4 has caused the Debian Bug report #696202, regarding php-horde-role: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/pear/pear.conf to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: php-horde-role Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts 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/pear/pear.conf cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: php-horde-role Source-Version: 1.0.1-4 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of php-horde-role, 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 696...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Mathieu Parent <sath...@debian.org> (supplier of updated php-horde-role 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: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:22:06 +0100 Source: php-horde-role Binary: php-horde-role Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Horde Maintainers <pkg-horde-hack...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Mathieu Parent <sath...@debian.org> Description: php-horde-role - ${phppear:summary} Closes: 696202 Changes: php-horde-role (1.0.1-4) unstable; urgency=low . * Change default horde_dir instead of changing horde_dir as postinst. Fixes "modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/pear/pear.conf" (Closes: #696202) Checksums-Sha1: 8eebd3b3f73b6fff3ef8f01b9c83c76136518faa 1363 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.dsc 633abc618ea6636fbca00edd26a8f15b9c381abe 2605 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.debian.tar.gz 1446b611b0330de8eeea03a75d87bf68f53a6d12 7066 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: eaa4f25bac0def24c54de19d13221b499741f3f537a0c4cbb99dfc44d2b916a0 1363 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.dsc 919b56e627e2cc4ef3b4b63d401c953cb1e6ba4865d9f6894ef600075cb73142 2605 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.debian.tar.gz 9e54436d8b68b9c3e12441f7b72368529b87eb5383303c0389500bdc0a165f2c 7066 php-horde-role_1.0.1-4_all.deb Files: 11c2f45403b1da9023a164cfa9a19a1c 1363 php extra php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.dsc 2e54abf350a15a4838f885ba7475f686 2605 php extra php-horde-role_1.0.1-4.debian.tar.gz ecd5aad25e76618ea63ef83ba7b15071 7066 php extra php-horde-role_1.0.1-4_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlDQ0LcACgkQOW2jYf5fHX9N7wCcCO7EfULjDu9TYvmeL4R5z7xm jAAAn1FoJuAeeolkc4VvLDbia7frtUjr =aorB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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