Bug#810967: pbuilder: adds MIRRORSITE to /etc/pbuilderrc on each upgrade, overwriting local admin config

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: tag -1 pending

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:36:17PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo dixit:
> 
> >I'm more tempted to just drop the whole thing. e.g. if the file is
> >missing do try to detect the mirror and add it, but if the file is
> >already there, then just walk away
> 
> I think that's the only thing Policy allows, actually.

not really.
software *can* modify conf files, but they can't overwrite or override
user settings.
making it parse correctly your user case (that I believe is quite
uncommon ;)) would be an equally policy-ok solution.

Anyway, I like it better now.  I haven't tested it at all, but I think
what I pushed should do the trick.
I never liked that try-to-guess-what-the-user-wants anyway, I'd just
remove all that debconf stuff, but that would be a really huge change
compared to the current state...

> I only recently realised it, and/or it bugged me enough to reportbug.

well, bugs are welcome \m/

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