Bug#340712: [Pkg-firebird-general] Bug#340712: firebird2-server-common: binary file security.fdb is not a config file but uses ucf!

[Damyan Ivanov]

tags 340712 help
thanks


Hi, Hamish,

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Package: firebird2-server-common
> Version: 1.5.2-10
> Severity: important

Do you care to justify the severity?

> On upgrade, firebird2-server-common asked me what to do with
> security.fdb. However it's a binary file, so things like "diff"
> don't make sense. I think managing this file as a conffile is just
> wrong.

diff makes no sense, yes. But replacing the password database on upgrade is
even worse.

> If you want to make merges possible then it would be better to do it
> with SQL dumps.

Practically, the packaged security.fdb changes only when upstream changes it -
i.e. on new upstream releases, so merges are not what I meant by marking
security.fdb as a conffile.

However, I agree that merges are the way to go. hints/ideas/patches are warmly
welcome.


dam
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