Debian Bug report logs - #729857
pcp: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user

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Package: pcp; Maintainer for pcp is PCP Development Team <pcp@groups.io>; Source for pcp is src:pcp (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:15:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Found in version pcp/3.8.8

Fixed in version pcp/3.8.9

Done: Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, PCP Development Team <pcp@oss.sgi.com>:
Bug#729857; Package pcp. (Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:15:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to PCP Development Team <pcp@oss.sgi.com>. (Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:15:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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

From: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: pcp: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:13:04 +0100
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: pcp
Version: 3.8.8
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed the piuparts
upgrade test because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then
prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails.
But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt
shows up in the first place, as there was nobody modifying this conffile
at all, the package has just been installed and upgraded...

This is a violation of policy 10.7.3, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3,
which says "[These scripts handling conffiles] must not ask unnecessary
questions (particularly during upgrades), and must otherwise be good
citizens."

http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling should help with figuring
out how to do this properly.

In http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00675.html and
followups it has been agreed that these bugs are to be filed with
severity serious.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Setting up pcp (3.8.8) ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/pcp ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/pmproxy ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/pmie ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/pcp ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/pcp.env ...
  
  Configuration file `/etc/pcp/pmproxy/pmproxy.options'
   ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
   ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
     What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
      Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
      N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
        D     : show the differences between the versions
        Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
   The default action is to keep your current version.
  *** pmproxy.options (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing pcp (--configure):
   EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   pcp

This was observed after an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (keeping the
squeeze version installed because pcp is not in wheezy) to jessie.


cheers,

Andreas

[pcp_3.8.8.log.gz (application/x-gzip, attachment)]

Reply sent to Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 729857-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org>
To: 729857-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#729857: fixed in pcp 3.8.9
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:03:56 +0000
Source: pcp
Source-Version: 3.8.9

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pcp, 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 729857@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org> (supplier of updated pcp 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@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:49:03 +1100
Source: pcp
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Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 3.8.9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: PCP Development Team <pcp@oss.sgi.com>
Changed-By: Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org>
Description: 
 libpcp-gui2 - Performance Co-Pilot graphical client tools library
 libpcp-gui2-dev - Performance Co-Pilot graphical client tools library and headers
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 libpcp-import1 - Performance Co-Pilot data import library
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 libpcp-logsummary-perl - Performance Co-Pilot historical log summary module
 libpcp-mmv-perl - Performance Co-Pilot Memory Mapped Value Perl module
 libpcp-mmv1 - Performance Co-Pilot Memory Mapped Value client library
 libpcp-mmv1-dev - Performance Co-Pilot Memory Mapped Value library and headers
 libpcp-pmda-perl - Performance Co-Pilot Domain Agent Perl module
 libpcp-pmda3 - Performance Co-Pilot Domain Agent library
 libpcp-pmda3-dev - Performance Co-Pilot Domain Agent library and headers
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 libpcp-trace2-dev - Performance Co-Pilot application tracing library and headers
 libpcp3    - Performance Co-Pilot library
 libpcp3-dev - Performance Co-Pilot library and headers
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 pcp-import-iostat2pcp - Tool for importing data from iostat into PCP archive logs
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 pcp-import-sar2pcp - Tool for importing data from sar into PCP archive logs
 pcp-import-sheet2pcp - Tool for importing data from a spreadsheet into PCP archive logs
 pcp-testsuite - Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) Test Suite
 python-pcp - Performance Co-Pilot Python PMAPI module
Closes: 729857
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 .
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