hi, I would like to request some advice on a case I need to resolve with maradns package [1].
The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of violation of policy 10.7.3 [2]. I closed the bug in a new release by not modifying the config and leaving the user to do it, informing her/him with a appropriate message with a user id to fill in. Then I get another violation of 10.7.3 [3][4] because now when package is uprgraded with a not modified config, Debian thinks that conffile is *modified* because the one that user has was in fact generated in postinst before. So dpkg prompts for a user action how to handle config file replacement... I am a little bit stuck here. I can see that I have to treat /etc/maradns/mararc as conffile because it resides in /etc/. If I go back to modifying the conffile to be compatible with the previous one, I will be again violating 10.7.3. I am quite stuck here, and I request some advice how to tackle the problem. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/maradns.html [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710903 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740332 [4] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 -- 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-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAGnkuncYBo01zxU7Hw1KfF70g=uh0o6rg6lbf-u2qrqfxau...@mail.gmail.com
