Debian Bug report logs - #245403
libpaper1: libpaper1 does not preserve user changes

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libpaper1: libpaper1 does not preserve user changes

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:04:25 -0500

Package: libpaper1
Version: 1.1.14
Severity: serious

	There are three separate issues here, let me know if you prefer
 two separate bug reports.

	If I create /etc/papersize, and then install, and purge
 libpaper1, my file is mysteriously gone. There was no warning that
 would happen, and, there is no indication that libpaper1 is in any
 way associated with this file (dpkg -S turns up no hits). One should
 only remove the file if it is the same as the one the program
 created.

	I have other packages that look at /etc/papersize, and these
 are now giving me the wrong paper size.

	The second issue is something I noticed when looking at the
 postinst: if I remove /etc/papersize, it later magically appears on
 upgrading libpaper1 -- and worse, reappears with the wrong value, not
 preserving the changes I made; this is not the behaviour one expects,
 since dpkg and packages that use ucf preserve user changes like
 deletion of configuration files.

	Thirdly, if the file exists, and is different from the value
 that lives in debconf, should you not reseed the debconf DB, so that
 the file that reappears from the dead actually contains the last
 value I had set?

	manoj

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages libpaper1 depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* libpaper/envchange: 
* libpaper/defaultpaper: letter

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verwendet werden?  Ob Programme schizophren werden koennen? Oliver
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Message #10 received at 245403@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>

To: 245403@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Patch

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:36:10 +0200 (CEST)

tag 245403 patch
stop

Hi,
	I have prepared a patch to fix libpaper RC bug, and at the same
time almost all the other small things like translations.

You can grab the patch here:

http://we.give.back.to.debian.even.if.we.have.no-name-yet.com/patches/libpaper.almostallbugs.diff

Please disregards the NMU entry that i used only on my katie instance for
testing.

Thanks
Fabio

-- 
<user> fajita: step one
<fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log.
<user> fajita: step two
<fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.

Message #17 received at 245403@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

To: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>, 245403@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#245403: Patch

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:31:23 +0200

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:36:10PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> tag 245403 patch
> stop
> 
> Hi,
> 	I have prepared a patch to fix libpaper RC bug, and at the same
> time almost all the other small things like translations.
> 
> You can grab the patch here:
> 
> http://we.give.back.to.debian.even.if.we.have.no-name-yet.com/patches/libpaper.almostallbugs.diff

I considered doing a NMU during the current BSP with your patch.
A question, though: Why do you remove /etc/papersize on remove and
on purge? Shouldn't this only be done on purge?

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

Message #22 received at 245403@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>

To: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

Cc: 245403@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#245403: Patch

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:24:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:36:10PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > tag 245403 patch
> > stop
> >
> > Hi,
> > 	I have prepared a patch to fix libpaper RC bug, and at the same
> > time almost all the other small things like translations.
> >
> > You can grab the patch here:
> >
> > http://we.give.back.to.debian.even.if.we.have.no-name-yet.com/patches/libpaper.almostallbugs.diff
>
> I considered doing a NMU during the current BSP with your patch.
> A question, though: Why do you remove /etc/papersize on remove and
> on purge? Shouldn't this only be done on purge?

Yes you are right. It should have been wrapped inside the case). I will
update the patch in a few minutes.

Fabio

-- 
<user> fajita: step one
<fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log.
<user> fajita: step two
<fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.

Message #31 received at 245403-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@debian.org>

To: 216471-done@bugs.debian.org, 263152-done@bugs.debian.org, 264212-done@bugs.debian.org, 261637-done@bugs.debian.org, 260820-done@bugs.debian.org, 246551-done@bugs.debian.org, 246070-done@bugs.debian.org, 238649-done@bugs.debian.org, 232061-done@bugs.debian.org, 238049-done@bugs.debian.org, 261844-done@bugs.debian.org, 245403-done@bugs.debian.org, 264249-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing all fixed bugs

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:50:27 +0200

I am adopting the package and closing all already fixed bugs.

Thanks to all NMUer,
Giuseppe

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