Bug#794933: apache2-suexec-custom: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/apache2/conf-available/security.conf
On Saturday 08 August 2015 11:38:14, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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 was observed while doing a wheezy -> jessie -> stretch upgrade
> test. I did not see such behavior while testing the other apache
> packages.
AFAICS, this happens when one upgrades from wheezy from a state where
only apache2.2-common is installed but not apache2. There is a bug in
apache2's preinst in jessie that makes it not recognize this case and
not execute the conffile handling.
While I think I have a fix, I am not not sure that I want to change
the upgrade logic in a stable point release.
I will have to think about it. If you are at debconf, maybe we can
talk about it there.
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