Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Thu Apr 18 14:44:05 BST 2019


Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.92-6

During this upgrade,

$ cat /var/log/apt/history.log
Start-Date: 2019-04-18  01:32:49
Upgrade: exim4-base:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6), openssl:amd64 (1.1.1b-1, 1.1.1b-2), unicode-data:amd64 (12.0.0-1, 12.1.0~pre1-1), exim4-daemon-light:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6), rsyslog:amd64 (8.1903.0-4, 8.1904.0-1), exim4-config:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6), exim4:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6), libssl1.1:amd64 (1.1.1b-1, 1.1.1b-2), libfaad2:amd64 (2.8.8-1, 2.8.8-2)
End-Date: 2019-04-18  01:32:56

some process did a touch(1) or otherwise changing
$ stat /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
  File: /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
  Size: 1154            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 803h/2051d      Inode: 524387      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Modify: 2019-04-18 01:32:53.473019451 +0800 <------------THIS
Change: 2019-04-18 01:32:53.477019558 +0800

causing alarm bells to ring on my homebrew security system.

Please don't "touch" files for no good reason. Thanks.

P.S., In fact, looking at that second in /var/log/dpkg.log shows:
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status half-configured exim4-config:all 4.92-6
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status installed exim4-config:all 4.92-6
2019-04-18 01:32:53 configure openssl:amd64 1.1.1b-2 <none>
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status unpacked openssl:amd64 1.1.1b-2
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status half-configured openssl:amd64 1.1.1b-2
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status installed openssl:amd64 1.1.1b-2
2019-04-18 01:32:53 configure exim4-base:amd64 4.92-6 <none>
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status unpacked exim4-base:amd64 4.92-6
2019-04-18 01:32:53 status half-configured exim4-base:amd64 4.92-6

(Plus I bet it is a policy violation.)



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