[Pkg-awstats-devel] About pending changes in pkg-awstats git repo....

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:02:27AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Sergey has done a great job working on awstats, it seems though as if many
> of his changes are still stuck in the git repo... It would probably be a good
> idea to cut a new release soon and upload the changes to unstable...
> Are there any known pending issues preventing this?

Hmm...  Probably, two:

(1) debian/update.sh looks only on awstats.*.conf files (it's not yet
backward compatible).  I suggest to
make /etc/awstats/awstats.conf - a common part for ALL virtual hosts.

(2) use separate uid for awstats (see discussion "RFC - cron-related
stuff" in -devel maillist).  Last message:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-awstats-devel/2009-April/000533.html
(feel free to join)

In short: (1) either create a bit complex suid wrapper (give
_readonly_ access for awstats cron scripts _only_ to
www-logfiles) OR (2) give _readonly_ access for awstats cron scripts
to ALL @adm stuff (simple, yet insecure solution).

> Also, why does the changelog say debian package revision -3 when the current
> version in sid uses -1? Is it simply a mistake or is there a reason to skip -2?

Looks like a mistake (see commit c36b393bfa2bf7871835f416180c7b98ca44da89)

git-dch joke?