Bug#263322: apache: no way to stop postinst from modifying /etc/aliases

[Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>]

reopen 263322 =
tags 263322 + woody
thanks

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
[apache postinst adding webmaster to /etc/aliases]
> 	this bug is already fixed in sarge/sid. There is no way we can fix
> it for woody.

The apache postinst is deliberately breaking local configuration without
a sane way to stop it. That's a blatant bug and an obvious candidate for
woody-proposed-updates in my eyes. At the very least, use getent to look
for an existing webmaster alias instead of grepping /etc/aliases.

This bug is so annoying because it's extremely hard to work around it in
a sane and permanent way. Consider the webmaster alias being defined in
NIS or LDAP, for example.

Regards,

Daniel.