Bug#381095: apache: considers local configuration file as its own

[Frederic Briere <fbriere@fbriere.net>]

Package: apache
Version: 1.3.33-6sarge2
Severity: normal

I just installed today's security update for apache, and was told the
following by debconf during post-config:

  A new version of configuration file /etc/apache/graphx.conf is
  available, but your version has been locally modified.

Now, /etc/apache/graphx.conf is a local configuration file, so I very
much doubt that a new version has been included in -6sarge2. :)

Looking at the diff output, it seems that apache is trying very hard to
conjure up a fake graphx.conf, with the first instances of ServerName
and DocumentRoot being replaced with "localhost" and "/var/www",
respectively.

So, as far as I can tell, apache is basically offering to hose my config
for free.  Thanks, but no thanks.

(I should point out that unlike #248136, I'm not upgrading from woody,
but merely from -6sarge1.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-toroia
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)