Debian Bug report logs - #541620
no conffile handling for /etc/adduser.conf - use ucf?

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

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

To: Debian BTS <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:30:36 +0200

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: normal

Hi.

It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the  
package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)...
Why this?

There seems to be no other handling for merging changes from  
maintainers version, which makes it invisible for updates.

I've just seen that I had a totally outdated version of that file,  
missing many new config options.
Even if you use that /usr/share file as fallback,.. this is bad, as  
users won't learn about new options, e.g.


Regards,
Chris.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.27      Debian configuration  
management sy
ii  passwd                       1:4.1.4.2-1 change and administer  
password and
ii  perl-base                    5.10.0-24   minimal Perl system

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl        1.05-4     Using libc functions for  
internati
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-24  Core Perl modules

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: false


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Message #10 received at 541620@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de>

To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>, 541620@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:43:20 +0200

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Hi,

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:30:36AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi.
> 
> It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the  
> package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)...
> Why this?

the changelog states for adduser 3.29 (written some time in 2001):

  * /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as a conffile anymore. Instead, it
    is moved to /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.conf and will
    be copied in postinst if it does not exist already.

but it doesn't give any further explanation for it. 

Maybe we shoudl revert that decision...


Jörg


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Message #15 received at 541620@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

To: Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de>

Cc: 541620@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:28:32 +0200

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Hi.

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 23:43 +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
>   * /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as a conffile anymore. Instead, it
>     is moved to /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.conf and will
>     be copied in postinst if it does not exist already.
Perhaps that my fault, but why are _so many_ packages doing this? I mean
I could understand it for config files that are really standard and do
not even belong to one specific package, as they're used by so many
programs (e.g. /etc/hosts,... or passwd,.. or that like),...
Why do we have this nice conffile mechanism then at all :)


Cheers,
Chris :)

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Message #20 received at 541620@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 541620@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:08:22 +0100

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This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:30:36AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > 
> > It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the  
> > package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)...
> > Why this?
> 
> the changelog states for adduser 3.29 (written some time in 2001):
> 
>   * /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as a conffile anymore. Instead, it
>     is moved to /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.conf and will
>     be copied in postinst if it does not exist already.
> 
> but it doesn't give any further explanation for it. 
> 
> Maybe we shoudl revert that decision...

In 2001, we only had dpkg's conffile handling, and we couldn't do any
editing of the config file in postinst if we shipped it in place in
the deb.  Now ucf exists, so it's probably a good idea to revisit the
maintainer scripts.

Cheers,
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Message #25 received at 541620@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>, 541620@bugs.debian.org, 541620-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

Subject: Re: Bug#541620: [Adduser-devel] Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:50:47 +0100

retitle 541620 no conffile handling for /etc/adduser.conf - use ucf?
thanks

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:08:22AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Now ucf exists, so it's probably a good idea to revisit the
> maintainer scripts.

Indeed ;)

Greetings
Marc

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Message #37 received at 541620@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>, 541620@bugs.debian.org, 541620-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

Subject: Re: Bug#541620: [Adduser-devel] Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 22:39:28 +0200

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:08:22AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> In 2001, we only had dpkg's conffile handling, and we couldn't do any
> editing of the config file in postinst if we shipped it in place in
> the deb.  Now ucf exists, so it's probably a good idea to revisit the
> maintainer scripts.

otoh, that would pull in ucf on all systems. We'd need to build some
scaffolding for graceful operation if ucf is present so that we can live
with a Recommends: ucf or Suggests: ucf.

Greetings
Marc

Message #45 received at 541620-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 541620-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#541620: fixed in adduser 3.125

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:34:07 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.125
Done: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

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

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 541620@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 adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:57:52 +0200
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.125
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Closes: 57280 398802 541620 682156 1012492 1015907
Changes:
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 .
   [ Marc Haber ]
   * remove debconf. (Closes: #57280, #398802)
   * install (add|del)user.conf as examples.
   * install adduser.conf as dpkg-conffile directly to /etc.
     (Closes: #541620)
   * remove postinst/postrm. (Closes: #1012492)
 .
   [ Jason Franklin ]
   * Remove the unused "get_users_groups" subroutine. (Closes: #1015907)
 .
   [ Matt Barry ]
   * Do not check for group being empty on 'delgroup'. (Closes: #682156)
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Message #50 received at 541620-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 541620-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#541620: fixed in adduser 3.127

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:23:31 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.127
Done: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

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

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 541620@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 adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.127
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Closes: 57280 152195 398802 440801 541620 609114 678615 682156 1012492 1015283 1015907 1016574 1017694
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 .
   [ Jason Franklin ]
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 .
   [ Marc Haber ]
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   * update and extend README
 .
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 .
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     Thanks to Simon McVittie (Closes: #1016574)
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 .
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   [ Marc Haber ]
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 .
   [ Matt Barry ]
   * Do not check for group being empty on 'delgroup'. (Closes: #682156)
 .
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 .
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     * implement testcases
     * re-work adduser logic to support USERGROUPS mechanics.
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     * implement new group_has_gid test
     * implement new apply_config_hash function.
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   * update debian/copyright
   * Update of German program translation.
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