does not start on install / depends on squid which is squid3

[Scott Moser]

on xenial:
 apt-get install squid-deb-proxy

then
# systemctl status squid-deb-proxy | cat
● squid-deb-proxy.service - LSB: Squid Deb Package HTTP Proxy
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/squid-deb-proxy; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-02-11 20:39:42 UTC; 17s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

Feb 11 20:39:42 squidtest systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Squid Deb Package HTTP Proxy...
Feb 11 20:39:42 squidtest systemd[1]: Started LSB: Squid Deb Package HTTP Proxy.
Feb 11 20:39:45 squidtest systemd[1]: Started LSB: Squid Deb Package HTTP Proxy.

# ps axw | grep squid
 2968 ? Ss 0:00 avahi-daemon: running [squidtest.local]
 3959 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/squid3 -YC -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf
 3961 ? S 0:00 (squid-1) -YC -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf
 3971 ? S 0:00 (logfile-daemon) /var/log/squid3/access.log
 6335 ? S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto squid

The only squid running is squid3.
The issue is jsut that squid-deb-proxy depends on 'squid'. and in xenial, 'squid' is squid3. Then the init script finds no DAEMON=/usr/sbin/squid and does nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: squid-deb-proxy 0.8.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-2.16-generic 4.4.0
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 11 20:34:39 2016
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: squid-deb-proxy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

Bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813082 claims to have fixed the problem

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

Either I goofed with bzr or the patch has been applied backward :

# bzr diff -r-2..-1
=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog 2015-08-24 09:56:49 +0000
+++ debian/changelog 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+squid-deb-proxy (0.8.14) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * depend on squid3 instead of squid, thanks to
+ HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai), closes: #813082
+
+ -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:55:43 +0100
+
 squid-deb-proxy (0.8.13) unstable; urgency=medium

   * add README.md to squid-deb-proxy install, thanks to

=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control 2013-05-16 18:09:24 +0000
+++ debian/control 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
- squid3
+ squid
 Recommends: avahi-utils
 Description: Squid proxy configuration to optimize package downloads
  This package contains a Squid proxy configuration to manage a cache of

=== modified file 'debian/squid-deb-proxy.init'
--- debian/squid-deb-proxy.init 2013-12-19 08:28:46 +0000
+++ debian/squid-deb-proxy.init 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

 NAME=squid-deb-proxy
 DESC="Squid Deb HTTP Proxy"
-DAEMON=/usr/sbin/squid3
+DAEMON=/usr/sbin/squid
 PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
 CONFIG=/etc/squid-deb-proxy/squid-deb-proxy.conf
 SQUID_ARGS="-YC -f $CONFIG"

=== modified file 'debian/squid-deb-proxy.logrotate'
--- debian/squid-deb-proxy.logrotate 2012-04-18 13:58:46 +0000
+++ debian/squid-deb-proxy.logrotate 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
  postrotate
   if [ -x /usr/sbin/squid ]; then
       SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid
- elif [ -x /usr/sbin/squid3 ]; then
- SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid3
   else
       echo "No squid binary found"
       exit 1

=== modified file 'debian/squid-deb-proxy.upstart'
--- debian/squid-deb-proxy.upstart 2014-03-19 13:46:32 +0000
+++ debian/squid-deb-proxy.upstart 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 script
   if [ -x /usr/sbin/squid ]; then
       SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid
- elif [ -x /usr/sbin/squid3 ]; then
- SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid3
   else
       echo "No squid binary found"
       exit 1

=== modified file 'init-common.sh'
--- init-common.sh 2014-12-17 12:27:25 +0000
+++ init-common.sh 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
 pre_start() {
   if [ -x /usr/sbin/squid ]; then
       SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid
- elif [ -x /usr/sbin/squid3 ]; then
- SQUID=/usr/sbin/squid3
   else
       echo "No squid binary found"
       exit 1
@@ -84,7 +82,7 @@
   rm -f $AVAHIFILE
 }

-# from the squid3 debian init script
+# from the squid debian init script
 find_cache_dir () {
         w=" " # space tab
         res=`sed -ne '

=== modified file 'squid-deb-proxy.conf'
--- squid-deb-proxy.conf 2015-07-14 14:53:01 +0000
+++ squid-deb-proxy.conf 2016-01-29 16:56:25 +0000
@@ -93,5 +93,5 @@
 # And finally deny all other access to this proxy
 http_access deny all

-# we don't want to clash with the squid3 netdb state file
+# we don't want to clash with the squid netdb state file
 netdb_filename stdio:/var/log/squid-deb-proxy/netdb.state

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

well, it's not applied backward, it's just that Debian uses squid & not squid3 as with Xenial. Maybe we should revert this patch

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

@louis-bouchard yes, that patch does not work under Xenial.

Workaround is to manually replace all occurrences of /usr/sbin/squid with /usr/sbin/squid3 in /etc/init.d/squid-deb-proxy, /etc/init/squid-deb-proxy.conf and /usr/share/squid-deb-proxy/init-common.sh

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

This bug does not break the operating system, so it has not an importance of "critical".

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Moreover squid is not a core software, so this bug has not an importance of "high" either.