[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#744398: Bug#744398: startpar modifies /etc/init/startpar-bridge.conf

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:31:02PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Steve Langasek]
> > The piuparts bug is that piuparts *thinks there's anything wrong*.
> > It is *correct* that the conffile's contents have changed on
> > upgrade, and piuparts is misreporting this as an error.

> I asked on #debian-devel, and jwilk suggested this might be related to
> dpkg bug <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/645849 >.

> No idea how to avoid the problem, though.  Perhaps change name of the
> file would do it?  But I suspect that might introduce a race condition
> for upstart users.

No.  Absolutely not.  The bug is in the auditing tool, *NOT* in the startpar
package.

The correct solution is for debsums to stop reporting this as an error when
it isn't, or for dpkg to change how it records these conffiles in the status
database.

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