[Reportbug-maint] Bug#503131: reportbug: inclusion of modified conffiles doesn't work

Håkon Stordahl hakon at stordahl.org
Wed Oct 22 19:29:24 UTC 2008


Package: reportbug
Version: 3.45
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello. I have modified the configuration file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
that was installed by the package dhcp3-client:

$ md5sum /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
1c128bc5590714d1688fb6944c7e4128  /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

$ dpkg -s dhcp3-client | grep /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
 /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf 6e3910d75cd5cde0042ecb6d48492ae9

However, if I try to run reportbug on the package, for example with
the command below, it doesn't ask whether to include this file in the
bug report, as the description of --no-config-files in the man page
suggests that it should (given that --no-config-files is actually not
specified on the command-line).

$ reportbug --no-check-available --no-query-bts --no-debconf -S normal \
  -s test -T none --print dhcp3-client

I've attached a patch which seems to fix this issue. Though, I've not
thoroughly tested it: only with my installtion of the dhcp3-client
package mentioned above.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacs"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/haakonst/.reportbugrc:
mode standard
ui text
realname "Håkon Stordahl"
email "hakon at stordahl.org"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.16+b1  Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.2-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.8      register and build utility for Pyt

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                 1.5.24     debconf utilities
ii  debsums                       2.0.38     verification of installed package 
ii  dlocate                       0.96.1     fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii  exim4                         4.69-9     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  file                          4.26-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-3    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  python-urwid                  0.9.8.3-1  curses-based UI/widget library for

-- no debconf information

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