/usr/share/bind9/bind9-default.md5sum should be in conffiles

[Dave Pifke]

Binary package hint: bind9

Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
bind9 version: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 0

Running debsums on my system returns an error because /usr/share/bind9/bind9-default.md5sums differs from the file that ships with the package. Looking at bind9's postinst script (line 110), it appears this file is overwritten at package installation time with the md5sum of /etc/default/bind9. As such, it seems the md5sum file should be included in conffifles since it's tied to the local configuration.

Expected behavior:

debsums should not alert me to changed files in the bind9 package due to configuration changes in /etc/default.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I filed a bug in debian about this, but IMO we should simply kill the following lines from bind9.postinst:

    if [ "$config" = "/etc/default/bind9" ]; then
        md5sum /etc/default/bind9 > /usr/share/bind9/bind9-default.md5sum
    fi

or stop shipping a default md5sum in the package itself.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bind9 - 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-3

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bind9 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-3) unstable; urgency=low

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 -- LaMont Jones <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:40:29 -0800