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Bug#678493: marked as done (masqmail: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user)

Your message dated Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:41:55 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1040237: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #678493,
regarding masqmail: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user
to be marked as done.

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Package: masqmail
Version: 0.3.4-1
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 masqmail (0.3.4-1) ...
  
  Configuration file `/etc/default/masqmail'
   ==> 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.
  *** masqmail (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing masqmail (--configure):
   EOF on stdin at conffile prompt


cheers,

Andreas

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Version: 0.3.4-2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package masqmail has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1040237

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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