Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock leafnode. It fixes 759869 (which was filed with
severity "important", but could just as well have been filed with
RC severity; if the Cron job isn't executed news messages older than
the cut-off age aren't removed from the news spool).
unblock leafnode/1.11.10-2
debdiff:
diff -Nru leafnode-1.11.10/debian/changelog leafnode-1.11.10/debian/changelog
--- leafnode-1.11.10/debian/changelog 2014-06-25 19:23:08.000000000 +0200
+++ leafnode-1.11.10/debian/changelog 2015-03-20 14:49:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+leafnode (1.11.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * base-passwd 3.5.30 changed the shell of the "news" system user to
+ nologin. Fix the daily cron job to use a shell, otherwise old
+ articles are no longer expired. Thanks to Jan Braun for the
+ report! (Closes: #759869)
+
+ -- Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:45:52 +0100
+
leafnode (1.11.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release, patches getaddrinfo and whoami
diff -Nru leafnode-1.11.10/debian/leafnode.cron.daily
leafnode-1.11.10/debian/leafnode.cron.daily
--- leafnode-1.11.10/debian/leafnode.cron.daily 2009-12-23 09:09:00.000000000
+0100
+++ leafnode-1.11.10/debian/leafnode.cron.daily 2015-03-20 14:45:13.000000000
+0100
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@
# Ignores the messages texpire generates to stdout about which articles it
# expires. If you'd rather get that info mailed to you, remove the >/dev/null
if [ -x /usr/sbin/texpire ]; then
- su news -c "/usr/sbin/texpire" >/dev/null
+ su news -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/texpire" >/dev/null
fi
# Run touch_newsgroups if the user wants it and we can
if [ -x /usr/bin/touch_newsgroup -a -f /etc/news/leafnode/touch_groups ]; then
if /usr/bin/perl -MNet::NNTP < /dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
- su news -c "/usr/bin/touch_newsgroup -f /etc/news/leafnode/touch_groups"
+ su news -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/touch_newsgroup -f
/etc/news/leafnode/touch_groups"
else
cat << EOF
You have requested that touch_newsgroup be run to mark the groups
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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