Bug#357521: acknowledged by developer (Expected behavior)

[Artem Zolochevskiy]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #357521: debsums fails on fresh installed gksu,
> which was filed against the gksu package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Filipus Klutiero <ido at vif.com>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
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> Debian bug tracking system administrator
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Expected behavior
> From:
> Filipus Klutiero <ido at vif.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:39:35 -0400
> To:
> 357521-close at bugs.debian.org
> 
> To:
> 357521-close at bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> Hi,
> this is the expected behavior if you modified /etc/gksu.conf, since you 
> are using -a. If you don't think so, please provide the MD5 sum of 
> /etc/gksu.conf.

Hi. I think the trouble still exists.

debian:~# aptitude purge gksu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   gksu
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 242kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 178921 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gksu ...
Purging configuration files for gksu ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

debian:~# ls -l /etc/gksu.conf
ls: /etc/gksu.conf: No such file or directory

debian:~# aptitude install gksu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   gksu
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/66.0kB of archives. After unpacking 242kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package gksu.
(Reading database ... 178888 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gksu (from .../g/gksu/gksu_1.2.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gksu (1.2.5-3) ...

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

debian:~# debsums -a -s gksu
debsums: checksum mismatch gksu file /etc/gksu.conf

debian:~# md5sum /etc/gksu.conf
3871446f7a22e72df9e5bdb59e571739  /etc/gksu.conf

You see, /etc/gksu.conf is untouched, but debsums fails.