[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#821819: sympa: upgrade overwrites configfiles with debconf values

[Maurice Massar]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-5+deb7u2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3

Dear Maintainer,

installing any updated sympa package overwrites changes to configuration files
using values stored in debconf. The packages config script must give preference
to values from the configuration file. Currently values are only extracted from
configuration files if a debconf value is not present. See also debconf-devel(7)
section "Config file handling".

best regards
Maurice Massar


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.10
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii  adduser                              3.113+nmu3
ii  ca-certificates                      20130119+deb7u1
ii  dbconfig-common                      1.8.47+nmu1+deb7u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                1.5.49
ii  dpkg                                 1.16.17
ii  libarchive-zip-perl                  1.30-6
ii  libc6                                2.13-38+deb7u10
ii  libcgi-fast-perl                     5.14.2-21+deb7u3
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl                    4.021-1+b1
ii  libdbd-pg-perl                       2.19.2-2+deb7u1
ii  libdbd-sqlite3-perl                  1.37-1
ii  libdbd-sybase-perl                   1.14-1
ii  libdbi-perl                          1.622-1+deb7u1
ii  libfcgi-perl                         0.74-1+b1
ii  libfile-copy-recursive-perl          0.38-1
ii  libhtml-format-perl                  2.10-1
ii  libhtml-stripscripts-parser-perl     1.03-1
ii  libhtml-tree-perl                    5.02-1
ii  libintl-perl                         1.20-1
ii  libio-stringy-perl                   2.110-5
ii  libmailtools-perl                    2.09-1
ii  libmime-charset-perl                 1.009.2-1
ii  libmime-encwords-perl                1.012.4-1
ii  libmime-lite-html-perl               1.23-1.1
ii  libmime-tools-perl                   5.503-1
ii  libmsgcat-perl                       1.03-5+b2
ii  libnet-ldap-perl                     1:0.4400-1
ii  libnet-netmask-perl                  1.9016-1
ii  libregexp-common-perl                2011121001-1
ii  libtemplate-perl                     2.24-1
ii  libterm-progressbar-perl             2.13-1
ii  libunicode-linebreak-perl            0.0.20120401-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl                   2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base                             4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  mhonarc                              2.6.18-2
ii  perl                                 5.14.2-21+deb7u3
ii  perl-modules [libcgi-pm-perl]        5.14.2-21+deb7u3
ii  rsyslog [system-log-daemon]          5.8.11-3+deb7u2
ii  sendmail-bin [mail-transport-agent]  8.14.4-4+deb7u1
ii  sqlite3                              3.7.13-1+deb7u2

Versions of packages sympa recommends:
ii  apache2-suexec             2.2.22-13+deb7u6
pn  doc-base                   <none>
ii  libapache2-mod-fcgid       1:2.3.6-1.2+deb7u1
ii  libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl  0.61-4
ii  libfile-nfslock-perl       1.21-1
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl      1.76-2
ii  libmail-dkim-perl          0.39-1
ii  libsoap-lite-perl          0.714-1
ii  locales                    2.13-38+deb7u10
ii  logrotate                  3.8.1-4
ii  postgresql                 9.1+134wheezy4

Versions of packages sympa suggests:
ii  apache2                         2.2.22-13+deb7u6
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [httpd-cgi]  2.2.22-13+deb7u6
pn  libauthcas-perl                 <none>
pn  libdbd-oracle-perl              <none>
pn  libtext-wrap-perl               <none>
ii  openssl                         1.0.1e-2+deb7u20

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sympa/topics.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
...
  wwsympa/fastcgi: false
...