Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:49:43AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> Then change the line in the postinst:
> 
> + if [ "$1" = configure ]
> + then
>     for i in /usr/bin/foo /usr/sbin/bar
>     do
> -     if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $i >/dev/null
> +     if [ dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "2.3.4-2" ]
>       then
>         dpkg-statoverride --update --add sysuser root 4755 $i
>       fi
>     done
> + fi
> 
> where 2.3.4-2 is to be replaced by the first version in which this
> statoverride was introduced.
> 
> In this way, if the sysadmin later touches the statoverride, their
> changes will remain (for good or bad).

It also means that it will fail miserably if the admin has added a
statoverride before installing version 2.3.4-2.

The previous code already would leave an existing statoverride alone; it
would only add one if it did not already exist.

-- 
 - mdz