Debian Bug report logs - #431019
false positives about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF

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

From: Michal Čihař <nijel@debian.org>

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

Subject: false positives about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:24:39 +0200

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.67-5
Severity: normal

Hi

just after upgrade I got following error:

DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably 
caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the 
suggested conffile changes. Please read 
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4

As I was not aware of any unsuccesful config updates, I was a bit
confused about NEWS hints. However at the end it turned out to be more
problem in script than in my config - it greps over all files in
/etc/exim4/conf.d. This means that it processes lots of files which are
otherwise ignored by update-exim4.conf. In my case it was some
*.dpkg-old lefover from past.

Maybe the config check should use some search logic as rest of the
script?

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.67 #1 built 28-Jun-2007 14:23:33
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.103      Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

Message #10 received at 431019-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Michal Čihař <nijel@debian.org>, 431019-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431019: false positives about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:19:33 +0200

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:24:39AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
> just after upgrade I got following error:
> 
> DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably 
> caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the 
> suggested conffile changes. Please read 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
> 
> As I was not aware of any unsuccesful config updates, I was a bit
> confused about NEWS hints. However at the end it turned out to be more
> problem in script than in my config - it greps over all files in
> /etc/exim4/conf.d.

Feature. You might be explicitly including things that would be left
out by ue4.conf

>  This means that it processes lots of files which are otherwise
>  ignored by update-exim4.conf. In my case it was some *.dpkg-old
>  lefover from past.

If you do not feel comfortable with removing the leftover from the
past to get rid of the warning, I'd like to suggest using the override
mechanism that is implemented in ue4.conf.

> Maybe the config check should use some search logic as rest of the
> script?

I do not feel comfortable with adding just another level of complexity.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #15 received at 431019-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: 431019-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#431019: fixed in exim4 4.67-6

Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:17:03 +0000

Source: exim4
Source-Version: 4.67-6

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
exim4, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

exim4-base_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-config_4.67-6_all.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-config_4.67-6_all.deb
exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-daemon-heavy_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-heavy_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-daemon-light-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-daemon-light_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-dbg_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4-dev_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-dev_4.67-6_i386.deb
exim4_4.67-6.diff.gz
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.67-6.diff.gz
exim4_4.67-6.dsc
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.67-6.dsc
exim4_4.67-6_all.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.67-6_all.deb
eximon4_4.67-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/e/exim4/eximon4_4.67-6_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 431019@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> (supplier of updated exim4 package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:22:09 +0200
Source: exim4
Binary: exim4-daemon-light-dbg exim4-daemon-custom exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-dbg exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg exim4-config exim4-daemon-custom-dbg eximon4 exim4-base exim4 exim4-dev exim4-daemon-light
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 4.67-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Description: 
 exim4      - meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation
 exim4-base - support files for all Exim MTA (v4) packages
 exim4-config - configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
 exim4-daemon-heavy - Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended features, including exiscan-ac
 exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
 exim4-daemon-light - lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
 exim4-daemon-light-dbg - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
 exim4-dbg  - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
 exim4-dev  - header files for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
 eximon4    - monitor application for the Exim MTA (v4) (X11 interface)
Closes: 429940 430521 431019 431088 431130 431957 432181 432229 432394 432521 432716
Changes: 
 exim4 (4.67-6) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add some more debugging output to maintainer scipts, hopefully
     nailing #396944 which has surfaced again.
   * Improve wording in NEWS.Debian for exim4-config.
     Closes: #431019, #431130
   * Issue DEBCONFfooDEBCONF warning as well for
     DEBCONFheaders_rewriteDEBCONF.
     Thanks to John Goerzen. Closes: #431088
   * fix localhost inserted twice into local_domains. Closes: #432394
   * fix MAIN_RELAY_TO_DOMAINS in update-exim4.conf.
     Thanks to Ben Wheeler. Closes: #432521
   * Document that special handling is needed for host lists that only
     consist of a single IPv6 address. Thanks to Frederic Daniel Luc
     Lehobey. Closes: #432229
   * Add forgotten (conditional) definition of REMOTE_SMTP_HEADERS_REWRITE
     and REMOTE_SMTP_RETURN_PATH for remote_smtp transports.
     Thanks to Miguel Martins Feitosa Filho. Closes: #432716
   * Debconf translations
     * Bulgarian completed. Closes: #431957, #430521
     * Update Tamil. Thanks to Tirumurti Vasudevan. Closes: #432181
     * Update Spanish.
       Thanks to Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña. Closes: #429940
Files: 
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 54a1b42a7fbe7de2b3d821d40be40fb9 559696 mail standard exim4_4.67-6.diff.gz
 0bfe0e70122cf2deeeaecff4d3aa1493 958078 mail standard exim4-base_4.67-6_i386.deb
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 875a90750051f24ef6db10786c0a0980 401578 mail standard exim4-daemon-light_4.67-6_i386.deb
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 289fa32db8c8c3aa49ef92faf29dc2e4 258382 mail standard exim4-config_4.67-6_all.deb
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Message #20 received at 431019@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sepp Wijnands <sw@nerds-incorporated.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <431019@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: exim4-config: debian packaging files (dpkg-dist/dpkg-old) still cause problems

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:05:35 +0200

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.67-7
Followup-For: Bug #431019

Hi,

Passive configuration files installed by dpkg still cause update-exim4.conf to barf
about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF directives:

	ips0:/etc/exim4# update-exim4.conf
	DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably
	caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
	suggested conffile changes. Please read
	/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
	ips0:/etc/exim4#


Running the offending regexp by hand gives the following result:

	ips0:/etc/exim4# grep -r '^[^#]*DEBCONF[a-z_]\+DEBCONF' conf.d
	conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options.dpkg-old:DEBCONF_hardcode_primary_hostname_DEBCONF

Since the other parts of update-exim4.conf ignores those files I would like to suggest
to change the detection routine so that it behaves more like the rest.

Sadly grep's --exclude and --include options only allow glob patterns, 
so using the exact same regular expression is not possible. 
But I think excluding automatically generated files by dpkg would be a nice start, something like:

	grep -r '^[^#]*DEBCONF[a-z_]\+DEBCONF' --exclude '*.dpkg-*'

Greetings,
Sepp Wijnands

P.S. I know that these files propably shouldn't be in the configuration directory at all. 
However previous versions of update-exim4.conf didn't mind, and I think rightly so.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.67 #1 built 14-Jul-2007 09:33:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.104      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Message #21 received at 431019-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Sepp Wijnands <sw@nerds-incorporated.org>, 431019-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431019: exim4-config: debian packaging files (dpkg-dist/dpkg-old) still cause problems

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:23:56 +0200

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:05:35PM +0200, Sepp Wijnands wrote:
> Passive configuration files installed by dpkg still cause update-exim4.conf to barf
> about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF directives:

Documented feature. Please read docs and look for duplicate bugs
before filing new ones.

Greetings
Marc

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