Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages
I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after
upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem.
Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a
corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as I did
should have cleared this, but it didn't. In the end I had to delete
history.dir and replace it with the "clean" one from the package.
Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and
would consider this a bug.
Another bug for the maintainer: the new ppp package prevented me from
running the pon script as non-root. It happens that I knew how to fix
this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals),
but a beginner would be stumped.
And another: upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my
/etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure
from scratch.
I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program
rendered unusable. I consider all three of these significant bugs.
The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider
trivial.
Thanks for listening.
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Carl Fink carlf@dm.net
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
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