Bug#792205: closed by Guillaume Bougard <gbougard at teclib.com> (Re: fusioninventory-agent: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/fusioninventory/agent.cfg)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-07-02 20:10, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:19:11 +0200, Guillaume Bougard wrote:
> 
>> in fact, and regarding the package history, the bug should have
>> been opened with 2.3.10 and closed with not releases 2.3.15...
>>
>> How to avoid this case becomes blocking for the migration to
>> testing planned in 8 days now ?
> 
> Technically, I suppose that "resetting" the affected versions [0]
> should do it. I'm just a bit reluctant to do or recommend it since
> there must have been a reason why Andreas filed the bug against
> 1:2.3.16-1.

even if 1:2.3.16-1 fixed it for new installations, it didn't clean up
after upgrades from older versions. Not sure whether it exploded with a
dpkg prompt about modified conffiles ...

> OTOH, I guess it's a bit hard to test the complete upgrade path any
> longer [1], and I'm not sure how much it matters at this point.

That's still easily possible - needs 4 -d options for piuparts.

> We could also (temporarily?) lower the severity of the bug; but I'd
> rather wait for Andreas' opinion on the issue.

That's probably OK, or rather remove the fixed version.


Andreas