[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#887398: Bug#887398: bind9: conffile changes without explanation

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Sven,

thanks for the report. The named.conf.options was intentional, the reasons for it not being conffile has long passed, the rest wasn't intentional, thanks for the catch.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018, at 00:03, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: bind9
> Version: 1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> 
> After upgrading from 1:9.11.2+dfsg-5, I noticed various conffile
> changes which seem to oversights:
> 
> ,----
> | $ debdiff bind9_1%3a9.11.2+dfsg-5_i386.deb 
> bind9_1%3a9.11.2+dfsg-7_i386.deb | grep -v /usr | head -n18
> | [The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
> | different names, permissions or owners.]
> | 
> | Files in second .deb but not in first
> | -------------------------------------
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/bind/named.conf.options
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/network/if-down.d/bind9
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/network/if-up.d/bind9/bind9
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/bind9
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/bind9
> | 
> | Files in first .deb but not in second
> | -------------------------------------
> | -rw-r--r--  root/root   /etc/bind/db.255
> | -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   /etc/network/if-down.d/bind9
> | -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   /etc/network/if-up.d/bind9
> | -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/bind9
> | -rwxr-xr-x  root/root   /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/bind9
> `----
> 
> Summary:
> 
> - /etc/bind/named.conf.options is now a conffile, which used to be not
>   the case.
> 
> - /etc/bin/db.255 has disappeared, but is left on the system as an
>   obsolete conffile.
> 
> - /etc/network/if-up.d/bind9 has been renamed to
>   /etc/network/if-up.d/bind9/bind9 which looks rather odd.
> 
> - Various scripts are no longer executable which likely means that they
>   will no longer run.
> 
> Please adjust the severity as needed.  I have the feeling that "serious"
> is the right one, but I need to go to bed now.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: amd64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.14.13-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages bind9 depends on:
> ii  adduser                3.116
> ii  bind9utils             1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.65
> ii  libbind9-160           1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libc6                  2.26-4
> ii  libcap2                1:2.25-1.2
> ii  libcomerr2             1.43.8-2
> ii  libdns169              1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libgeoip1              1.6.11-3
> ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.15.2-2
> ii  libisc166              1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libisccc160            1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libisccfg160           1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libjson-c3             0.12.1-1.2
> ii  libk5crypto3           1.15.2-2
> ii  libkrb5-3              1.15.2-2
> ii  liblmdb0               0.9.21-1
> ii  liblwres160            1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  libssl1.1              1.1.0g-2
> ii  libxml2                2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1
> ii  lsb-base               9.20170808
> ii  net-tools              1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1
> ii  netbase                5.4
> 
> bind9 recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages bind9 suggests:
> ii  bind9-doc   1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> ii  dnsutils    1:9.11.2+dfsg-7
> pn  resolvconf  <none>
> pn  ufw         <none>
> 
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