Bug#794948: cyphesis-cpp: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/cyphesis/cyphesis.vconf

[Olek Wojnar]

Thanks for looking at this while I've been gone, Markus!

On Sun, 14 May 2017 15:43:37 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> Possible sources of error are in debian/rules, the dh_installinit option
> --no-scripts is misspelled and in the postinst script maybe these two
lines

Ah! I'm doing an update on that package right now, I just fixed that typo.
Thanks!

> on every upgrade and I cannot confirm that. The cyphesis.vconf script is
> installed with cyphesis-cpp.install and again I don't think this is
> suspicious.

The problem was the debconf system that I inherited with this package.
That's what was illegally modifying that conf file. I tried fixing it a
couple times but eventually decided that it wasn't worth the trouble. Most
packages in Debian have common-sense default settings and they assume some
level of computer proficiency on the part of the user (especially for a
server package like this one) to manually edit configuration files. I'm
also updating documentation[1] with this newest upload to make that manual
configuration easier. With debconf removed since the 0.6.0 series, there's
nothing else that can be fixed in the current package.

I agree that an issue with old-old-stable is not likely to have any
real-world impact at this point. However, if Andreas or anyone else
believes that it *is* a real problem, I have no objection to removing this
package from old-old. If I don't hear an objection in the next week or two
I'll re-close this bug because the newest version already fixes the
conffile modification issue.

-Olek

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883739
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