Debian Bug report logs - #688351
jackd1: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf

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

From: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

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

Subject: jackd2: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:22:09 +0200

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Package: jackd2
Version: 1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-4
Severity: serious
Tags: squeeze-ignore
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: found -1 1.9.6~dfsg.1-2

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
This is forbidden by the policy, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files

10.7.3: "[...] The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the
configuration file a conffile. [...] This implies that the default
version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be
modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any
other time)."

Note that once a package ships a modified version of that conffile,
dpkg will prompt the user for an action how to handle the upgrade of
this modified conffile (that was not modified by the user).

Further in 10.7.3: "[...] must not ask unnecessary questions
(particularly during upgrades) [...]"

If a configuration file is customized by a maintainer script after
having asked some debconf questions, it may not be marked as a
conffile. Instead a template could be installed in /usr/share and used
by the postinst script to fill in the custom values and create (or
update) the configuration file (preserving any user modifications!).
This file must be removed during postrm purge.
ucf(1) may help with these tasks.
See also http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling

In https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00412.html and
followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with
severity serious.

debsums reports modification of the following files,
from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  debsums: missing file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf (from jackd2 package)


Looking at the maintainer scripts, they already DTRT: initially get the
file from /usr/share and delete it in postrm purge (trying both possible
names). So just stop shipping the conffile, too.


cheers,

Andreas

PS: Manually running db_purge in postrm is not needed, dh_installdebconf
installs exactly the same code snippet.

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Message #22 received at 688351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>

To: 688351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#688351: jackd1: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:37:50 +0200

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Control: tags -1 + patch pending

Dear Maintainers,

Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> writes:

> debsums reports modification of the following files,
> from the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
>   debsums: missing file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf (from jackd2 package)
>
>
> Looking at the maintainer scripts, they already DTRT: initially get the
> file from /usr/share and delete it in postrm purge (trying both possible
> names). So just stop shipping the conffile, too.

I have uploaded to DELAYED/5 an NMU fixing this bug, implementing the
suggestion by Andreas. The debdiff is attached. Feel free to tell me if
I should delay it longer.

Regards,

[jack-audio-connection-kit_0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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Message #29 received at 688351-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>

To: 688351-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#688351: fixed in jack-audio-connection-kit 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1

Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:02:29 +0000

Source: jack-audio-connection-kit
Source-Version: 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
jack-audio-connection-kit, 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 688351@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> (supplier of updated jack-audio-connection-kit 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: 1.8
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:03:37 +0200
Source: jack-audio-connection-kit
Binary: jackd1 libjack0 jackd1-firewire libjack-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>
Description: 
 jackd1     - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients)
 jackd1-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO backend)
 libjack-dev - JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files)
 libjack0   - JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
Closes: 688351
Changes: 
 jack-audio-connection-kit (1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * No longer ship /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf as a conffile
     (Closes: #688351)
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