[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#689578: sympa: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/syslog.conf

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:07:12AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: sympa
> Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-4
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
> And even worse, it's a conffile owned by a different package.
> This is forbidden by the policy, see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
> 
[..]
> 
> debsums reports modification of the following files,
> from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   /etc/syslog.conf

I had a look at this bugreport for sympa. This indeed seems to be a
problem if one uses sysklogd. sysklogd provides
/usr/sbin/syslog-facility and in sympa's postinst we have:

----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----
## Setup a syslog facility
if which syslog-facility >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  && [ -e /etc/syslog.conf ] \
  && ! grep -q "/var/log/sympa.log" /etc/syslog.conf \
  && syslog-facility set all /var/log/sympa.log > /etc/sympa/facility \
  && [ -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd ]; then
        if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                invoke-rc.d sysklogd reload
        else
                etc/init.d/sysklogd reload
        fi
fi
----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut-----

The problematic call is syslog-facility set all /var/log/sympa.log
which will add a

local0.*                /var/log/sympa.log

to /etc/syslog.conf.

Regards,
Salvatore
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