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x11-apps package

Prompting due to modified Xedit conffile that was not modified by the user

Bug #518045 reported by Lionel Le Folgoc
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
x11-apps (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Steve Langasek
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2
Lucid
Fix Released
High
Steve Langasek
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2

Bug Description

Binary package hint: x11-apps

Hi,

When upgrading from hardy up-to-date to lucid (today), dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and prompted me for an action, but this isn't correct, I didn't modify the file.

Prompt during the upgrade (sorry, in French, but it's just a standard dpkg prompt for modified files) :
Paramétrage de x11-apps (7.5+1ubuntu1) ...

Fichier de configuration « /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit »
 ==> Supprimé (par vous ou par un script) depuis l'installation.
 ==> Le distributeur du paquet a fourni une version mise à jour.
   Que voulez-vous faire ? Vos options sont les suivantes :
    Y ou I  : installer la version du responsable du paquet
    N ou O  : garder votre version actuellement installée
      D  : afficher les différences entre les versions
      Z  : suspendre ce processus pour examiner la situation
 L'action par défaut garde votre version actuelle.
*** Xedit (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [défaut=N] ? y
Installation de la nouvelle version du fichier de configuration /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit ...

During the upgrade, update-manager showed no diff between these two files (empty window)...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 6 14:43:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: x11-apps 7.5+1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic-pae
SourcePackage: x11-apps
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic-pae i686

Revision history for this message
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :
Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I saw that in a 8.04 -> 10.04 upgrade test as well.

Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
status: New → Confirmed
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
summary: - Prompting due to modified conffiles that were not modified by the user
+ Prompting due to modified Xedit conffile that was not modified by the
+ user
Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Bryce,

are you on this bug? If you have too much on your plate, please reassign to me or raof.

Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee: nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington)
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

reproducible; in a chroot; the bug here is that the x11-apps preinst has code to remove the conffile on upgrade, but still ships the conffile - so immediately after removing the old version, a new one is unpacked, yielding the prompt.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone: ubuntu-10.04-beta-1 → ubuntu-10.04-beta-2
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee: Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package x11-apps - 7.5+1ubuntu2

---------------
x11-apps (7.5+1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Since we have xedit again, drop the conffile removal handling from the
    maintainer scripts. LP: #518045.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:52:49 -0800

Changed in x11-apps (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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