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

[David Prevot]

Hi Hilmar,

On 2025-05-01 00:49, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 30.04.25 David Prevot (dprevot at evolix.fr) wrote:
[…]
> > > I've created the -4 revision and put it here [1].
> > […]
> > > The packages are built for Debian stable, if you need a build for
> > > unstable / testing, please call back!
[…]
> The source package is also on that URL

Apologies, I didn’t even try to look at the directory on people.d.o, my
bad.

> Feel free to rebuild. If you need a git repo, please go to [1],
> choose branch trixie.

Done, thanks! I can confirm that the issue is fixed: installing
1.3.8.c+dfsg-2 from testing (with proftpd.service not running with the
broken default configuration file) and upgrading to 1.3.8.c+dfsg-4 (and
accept that ucf updates the configuration file) ends up with a started
proftpd.service.

Even if the admin chooses to not replace the configuration file,
/etc/proftpd/modules.conf.proftpd-{new,old} and
/etc/proftpd/modules.conf.ucf-new should help them figure out how to fix
the issue. Not sure if it warrants a NEWS.Debian entry to point at this
behavior change (I don’t think a more invasive fix would be welcome
anyway).

Thanks a lot for digging quickly into this issue!

Cheers!
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David Prévot
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