Bug#673006: spf-tools-perl: Package overwrote existing file without backing it up or asking

Ralf G. R. Bergs Ralf+Debian at Bergs.BIZ
Tue May 15 11:27:01 UTC 2012


Package: spf-tools-perl
Version: 2.007-1
Severity: important

I had a file /usr/sbin/spfd installed already on my system, and when I
installed this package it overwrote the existing file without backing
it up or at least asking whether it is ok to overwrite it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages spf-tools-perl depends on:
ii  libmail-spf-perl       2.007-1           Perl implementation of Sender Poli
ii  perl                   5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libversi 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Core Perl modules

spf-tools-perl recommends no packages.

spf-tools-perl suggests no packages.

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