Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Chris Knadle
At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are altering /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without prompting the user beforehand, even when they've been locally modified. I've pointed section § 10.7.3 of Debian Policy: • local changes must be preserved during a package

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Chris Knadle , 2015-03-21, 15:22: At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are altering /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without prompting the user beforehand, even when they've been locally modified. To clarify /etc/ssh/ssh_config is a conffile; so it's managed

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Knadle writes: > At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are > altering /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without > prompting the user beforehand, even when they've been locally > modified. I've pointed section § 10.7.3 of Debian Policy: >• local changes m

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Chris Knadle
On 03/21/2015 04:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > >> At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are >> altering /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without >> prompting the user beforehand, even when they've been locally >> modified. I've pointed sectio

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Chris Knadle
On 03/21/2015 04:10 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Chris Knadle , 2015-03-21, 15:22: >> At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are altering >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without prompting the >> user beforehand, even when they've been locally modified. > > To clarif

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:36:20PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On 03/21/2015 04:10 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > The only trouble is /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which is not a conffile for > > whatever reason. > > Ugh. Any file in /etc should be a conffile by Policy AFAICT so if > this is so I should prob

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Chris Knadle
On 03/21/2015 04:53 PM, James McCoy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:36:20PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >> On 03/21/2015 04:10 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >>> The only trouble is /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which is not a conffile for >>> whatever reason. >> >> Ugh. Any file in /etc should be a conffile by

Re: Bug#780797: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-21 13:14:08 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > > At present the openssh-server and openssh-client packages are > > altering /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config without > > prompting the user beforehand, even when they've been locally > > modified. I've poin

Re: Bug#780797: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2015-03-21 13:14:08 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Correct. The Policy statement is about preserving user changes, not >> about never touching any file that a user has modified in any way. The >> package is free to modify unchanged portions of the configuration file,