[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#386551: cupsys: postinst script destroys local
changes to config files
Juha Jaykka
juhaj at kelvin.tfy.utu.fi
Fri Sep 8 12:48:24 UTC 2006
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.2-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3
Lines 131-137 of cupsys.postinst incorrectly assume that *any* lines
containing "Include /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf" and ".../ports.conf"
in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf are indeed remnants of now-obsolete debconf
options.
They are not.
The script should *at least* check if the debconf even has answers to
the now-obsolete questions and not destroy cupsd.conf if it has not
modified it earlier.
What happens (on a *fresh* install of etch):
1) install cupsys
2) edit cupsd.conf to Include /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf
3) remove cupsys
4) install cupsys
5) your Include -directive is gone
OR
1) install cupsd.conf, which Includes /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf
2) install cupsys
3) your include -directive is gone
This is *very* annoying in an environment, like ours, where cfengine
pre-distributes config files (dpkg is always run with --conf-old) and
packages are installed only afterwards.
-Juha
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups
ii cupsys-common 1.2.2-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.2-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.2-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.4.2-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.19 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-14 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-6.1 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.7-2 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-9 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.2-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20060712-3 linuxprinting.org printer support
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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