[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1093288: feature request: warn when (accidentally) updating conffiles in stable updates

[Lee Garrett]

Package: piuparts
Version: 1.1.7
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian at rocketjump.eu

Hi,

when preparing a stable-update, it's good to avoid conffile updates, as those
prompt the user, and also prevent those packages from being updated by
unattended-upgrades.

In my specific case it was a dnsmasq update from 2.89 to 2.90 which also had a
one character typo fix in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. (See https://bugs.debian.org/1093274)

piuparts could detect that the package being tested is a stable update, and then
warn when the conffile has changed between stable and that package.

Greets,
Lee

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.9
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (1001, 'stable-security'), (1001, 'proposed-updates'), (1001, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.10+bpo-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  debootstrap      1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u2
ii  debsums          3.0.2.1
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc  5.3.0-4
ii  lsb-release      12.0-1
ii  lsof             4.95.0-1
ii  mount            2.38.1-5+deb12u3
ii  piuparts-common  1.1.7
ii  python3          3.11.2-1+b1
ii  python3-debian   0.1.49

Versions of packages piuparts recommends:
ii  adequate  0.15.9~deb12u1

Versions of packages piuparts suggests:
ii  docker.io  20.10.24+dfsg1-1+deb12u1
ii  schroot    1.6.13-3+b2

-- no debconf information