[Openstack-devel] Bug#662067: Bug#662067: glance-api: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

[Ghe Rivero]

Working on it. The same issue occurs with glance-registry.

Ghe Rivero

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> Package: glance-api
> Version: 2012.1~e4-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> 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.
>
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
>  Setting up glance-api (2012.1~e4-1) ...
>
>  Configuration file `/etc/glance/glance-api.conf'
>   ==> 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.
>  *** glance-api.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing glance-api (--configure):
>   EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
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