Bug#1103981: proftpd-core: Does not start with default configuration (unknown configuration directive 'ShowSymlinks')

[David Prevot]

Hi,

On 2025-04-28 07:54, David Prévot wrote:
> On 28/04/2025 00:02, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > On 24.04.25 David Prevot (dprevot at evolix.fr) wrote:
> > > On 2025-04-23 23:42, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> […]
> > > > I'm wondering if the three modules mod_delay, mod_ls and mod_xfer are loaded in your file /etc/proftpd/modules.conf
> > > 
> > > No they were not: adding those three indeed fixes this issue, but it
> > > would be nice to add them to debian/templates/modules.conf in order to
> > > have a working default configuration on Trixie (it was working out of
> > > the box on Bookworm).
> > > 
> > 
> > I built the proftpd-core_1.3.8.c+dfsg-3 for Debian stable, then
> > purged the proftpd installation on my server and installed the custom
> > packages. The server process starts up fine and I find the code block
> > 
> > # Debian #1103154: needed to make default config executable
> > LoadModule mod_delay.c
> > LoadModule mod_ls.c
> > LoadModule mod_xfer.c
> > 
> > in the /etc/proftpd/modules.conf . Did you do an upgrade and the modules.conf
> > was not replaced / updated? Please confirm, I'll check that later.

Indeed, I installed version 1.3.8.c+dfsg-2 and then upgraded to
1.3.8.c+dfsg-3. I confirm that a fresh install of 1.3.8.c+dfsg-3 does
not trigger the issue, but upgrading to 1.3.8.c+dfsg-3 does not fix
#1103154.

Regards,
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David Prévot
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