[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#266822: marked as done (gpm: debconf abuse; overwrites /etc/gpm.conf without asking)
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Subject: gpm: debconf abuse; overwrites /etc/gpm.conf without asking
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Package: gpm
Version: 1.9.16-14
Severity: serious
I just upgraded gpm today, and was greeted with a sequence of debconf
questions. Now, I _had_ gpm configured just fine, an upgrade shouldn't
have bring up such a thing in the first place. I'd suggest checking if
/etc/gpm.conf exists, and skipping the debconf stuff in that case.
Furthermore, it DID NOT PROVIDE an option to leave my /etc/gpm.conf
alone, which I consider serious. I had a quite complex /etc/gpm.conf,
one that sourced other files, depending on the host it is used, and it
also had stuff my version control system uses. All this has been
overwritten, so my mouse does not work on any of my computers.
Please, stop abusing debconf. It is not meant to break configurations,
but to provide defaults, based on user input, where sensible defaults
cannot be made without the users help. But if the user already has
things set up, debconf should not be used at all. It is not a registry.
I want to edit /etc/gpm.conf by hand, that is how a unix system works.
If gpm wouldn't have launched debconf on upgrade (on a fresh install,
the questions are all nice and useful), I wouldn't have much problem.
But on an upgrade, when I had a working configuration and it broke it,
it is unacceptable. As is the requirement to modify /etc/gpm.conf with
dpkg-reconfigure. That's plain stupid, please don't do it. Modify the
debconf stuff to create the file if it does not exist, but do not
require it to be modified only via dpkg-reconfigure.
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Source: gpm
Source-Version: 1.19.6-15
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 266822@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpm package)
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:23:05 +0200
Source: gpm
Binary: libgpmg1 gpm libgpmg1-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.19.6-15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GPM Team <pkg-gpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description:
gpm - General Purpose Mouse Interface
libgpmg1 - General Purpose Mouse - shared library
libgpmg1-dev - General Purpose Mouse - development files
Closes: 266822 266841 266937 266942 266983
Changes:
gpm (1.19.6-15) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Peter Samuelson ]
* gpm.config: Fix (harmless) warning if gpm.conf doesn't exist.
* gpm.postrm: move debhelper stuff to the beginning of the script.
Seems to work around debconf weirdness that causes an error exit.
(Closes: #266942)
* gpm.init: make "repeat_type=none" do what the debconf template
says it does. Thanks to Gian Piero Carrubba. (Closes: #266841)
* gpm.prerm: rewrite stop_gpm() to fix 3 bugs and improve readability:
- space after \ line continuation char
- 'gpm -x' should be 'gpm -k'
- return success, not failure, if the daemon wasn't running
(Closes: #266937)
* gpm.postinst: only set up /dev/mouse if it doesn't already exist.
It should not ever be needed anyway, and breaks the occasional
config. Also teach it about repeat_type=none and multi-level
device names like /dev/input/mice. (Closes: #266983)
* gpm.init: minor UI issues:
- print newlines after errors on start / stop targets
- if stop failed on restart, do not bother to 'sleep 3'
- propagate start failure on restart
* gpm.templates: Reword gpm/restart so as not to imply that the user
*is* necessarily in X. We actually do not know this at the time.
.
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Switched to ucf, so no more user configuration changes trashed on
update. (Closes: #266822)
* Removed debconf question about fixing an old bogus gpm.conf file
generated with gpmconfig.
.
[ Joshua Kwan ]
* Add Peter Samuelson to uploaders.
* Remove unused 'read' patch, and 'sources' file.
* Make the long descriptions a little clearer.
* Handle case where ucf is not available in the postrm by testing for its
existence first.
Files:
f366da475651be28249bfc2b9762b582 823 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15.dsc
87c2e5065603fc5c53bf7996f2402608 51349 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15.diff.gz
f2a7fa358824f4f19ef6443baa25ab79 187562 misc optional gpm_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
b65c74e8d8af81ca25eb265d4c8a5e06 48326 libs standard libgpmg1_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
c250753f8e1a4d23c20740c52f61a20a 50590 libdevel optional libgpmg1-dev_1.19.6-15_i386.deb
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