Bug#546665: l7-protocols: overwrites user configuration files

2009-09-18 Thread Piotr Lewandowski
* Alan Woodland , 2009-09-17 19:44: 1) /etc/l7-protocols would be a symlink to /usr/share/l7-protocols managed by maintainer scripts of l7-protocols. It is not clear what to do during removal (and before purge) - we shouldn't leave a dangling symlink in /etc. I would avoid this one: mkdir /etc/l

Bug#546665: l7-protocols: overwrites user configuration files

2009-09-18 Thread Alan Woodland
2009/9/18 Jakub Wilk : > * Alan Woodland , 2009-09-17, 19:44: >>> >>> 2) Patch l7-filter-userspace to look into /usr/share/l7-protocols for >>> protocol definitions rather than /etc/l7-protocols. Then l7-protocols >>> could >>> provide no /etc/l7-protocols at all. >> >> This might be a sensible opt

Bug#546665: l7-protocols: overwrites user configuration files

2009-09-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Alan Woodland , 2009-09-17, 19:44: 2) Patch l7-filter-userspace to look into /usr/share/l7-protocols for protocol definitions rather than /etc/l7-protocols. Then l7-protocols could provide no /etc/l7-protocols at all. This might be a sensible option, although it's a significant deviation from

Bug#546665: l7-protocols: overwrites user configuration files

2009-09-17 Thread Alan Woodland
2009/9/17 Piotr Lewandowski : > Hi Alan, > > I need your advice what to do with my first RC-bug. :) I would normally recommend CC'ing discussions relating to how to fix the bug to the bug report itself - someone else might read the bug and have something relevant to offer to the discussion, or alt

Bug#546665: l7-protocols: overwrites user configuration files

2009-09-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: l7-protocols Version: 20090528-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.8.3 l7-protocols would happily overwrite user configuration files: # ls -l /etc/l7-protocols/extra/http-itunes.pat -rw--- 1 root root 30 Sep 14 22:57 /etc/l7-protocols/extra/http-itunes.pat # dpkg -i /pat