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Bug#699744: marked as done (wheezy-manual: strongly suggest to upgrade dpkg first)

Your message dated Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:03:09 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#699744: nagios3-cgi: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/nagios3/stylesheets/outages.css
has caused the Debian Bug report #699744,
regarding wheezy-manual: strongly suggest to upgrade dpkg first
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Package: nagios3-cgi
Version: 3.4.1-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + nagios

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 was observed on an upgrade from lenny to squeeze to wheezy.

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 nagios3-cgi (3.4.1-2) ...
  
  Configuration file `/etc/nagios3/stylesheets/outages.css'
   ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
   ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
     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.
  *** outages.css (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing nagios3-cgi (--configure):
   EOF on stdin at conffile prompt


cheers,

Andreas

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:22:30AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:29:25AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I agree with Andreas Beckmann it would be useful if a remark could be
> > added to the release notes.  I can apply a patch soon.  Below snippets
> > from previous discussion summarize the relevant parts I believe.
> > Anybody willing to draft a patch?
> 
> This bug has been inactive for more than 4 years, and wheezy is now LTS.
> Is this still relevant, or should we just close this bug already?

Could better be closed, imho.  Just doing that now.  Thanks for triaging!

Bye,

Joost

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