[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#720517: cacti: Owner/group reset on upgrade

[Romain Coltel]

Package: cacti
Version: 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u1
Severity: normal

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The recent DSA about cacti arose a problem of owner/group being reset to
the defaults (root/www-data). My configuration (using PHP-FPM with a
specific group for cacti) needs /etc/cacti/debian.php to be
group-assigned as "cacti" and not the default "www-data", but after
upgrading, I found the group to be "www-data" again.
This bug has already been filed as 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309194 in the past.

In the same idea, the directory /var/log/cacti/ also has its owner/group
being reset even if cacti has to write in there.

When upgrading, could it be possible not to change the owner/group?

Thanks,
Romain

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8.13-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cacti depends on:
ii  dbconfig-common                          1.8.47+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                    1.5.49
ii  libapache2-mod-fcgid                     1:2.3.6-1.2
ii  libphp-adodb                             5.15-1
ii  mysql-client-5.5 [virtual-mysql-client]  5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
ii  perl                                     5.14.2-21
ii  php5-cgi                                 5.4.4-14+deb7u3
ii  php5-cli                                 5.4.4-14+deb7u3
ii  php5-mysql                               5.4.4-14+deb7u3
ii  php5-snmp                                5.4.4-14+deb7u3
ii  rrdtool                                  1.4.7-2
ii  snmp                                     5.4.3~dfsg-2.7
ii  ucf                                      3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages cacti recommends:
ii  apache2                      2.2.22-13
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]  2.2.22-13
ii  iputils-ping                 3:20101006-1+b1
ii  libjs-jquery                 1.7.2+dfsg-1
ii  libjs-jquery-cookie          6-1
ii  logrotate                    3.8.1-4
ii  mysql-server                 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
ii  nginx                        1.2.1-2.2+wheezy1
ii  nginx-full [nginx]           1.2.1-2.2+wheezy1

Versions of packages cacti suggests:
pn  moreutils  <none>
pn  php5-ldap  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/cacti changed [not included]
/etc/logrotate.d/cacti changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded