Bug#607799: sbcl: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user
Package: sbcl,common-lisp-controller
Version: 1:1.0.40.0-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o
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.
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