conf file prompt during upgrade from Focal to Jammy

[Brian Murray]

* Impact
A conffile prompt is displayed on upgrade

* Test Case
upgrade speech-dispatcher from the focal to the jammy-proposed version, there should be no conffile prompt

* Regression potential
the change only remove a .mainscript line to remove the conffile, if the change was incorrect the prompt could still be there or a an old conffile could be not removed on upgrade

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I was performing a distribution upgrade of an Ubuntu Desktop install of Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 when I encountered a debconf prompt regarding a speech-dispatcher config file which I had not modified. From /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log:

Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.11.1-1) ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/cicero.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dtk-generic.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/epos-generic.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-mbrola-generic.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng-mbrola-generic.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/flite.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/llia_phon-generic.conf ...^M
^M
Configuration file '/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf'^M
 ==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation.^M
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.^M
   What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:^M
    Y or I : install the package maintainer's version^M
    N or O : keep your currently-installed version^M
      D : show the differences between the versions^M
      Z : start a shell to examine the situation^M
 The default action is to keep your current version.^M
*** mary-generic.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? n^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/swift-generic.conf ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/pico-generic.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ivona.conf ...^M
speech-dispatcherd.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it.^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/baratinoo.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf ...^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/kali.conf ...^M

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's a screenshot of the actual prompt.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was also able to recreate this in a chroot by installing speech-dispatcher, editing sources.list from focal to jammy, and running apt-get dist-upgrade.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

debian/speech-dispatcher.maintscript in the jammy version of speech-dispatcher removes /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf but this package version also ships it. Should be a one-line fix.

Bug would not be noticed in Debian because the maintscript entry has a version check of 0.10.1-2~ for this removal and Debian stable ships 0.10.2-2+deb11u1; so in Debian it's a removal and reintroduction in separate releases.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted speech-dispatcher into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/0.11.1-1ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package speech-dispatcher - 0.11.1-3ubuntu1

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speech-dispatcher (0.11.1-3ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * debian/speech-dispatcher.maintscript:
    - don't remove mary-generic.conf on upgrade, it's included in the
      package again. Fix conffile prompt on update (lp: #1981611)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:15:31 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I tested an upgrade in a chroot from focal to jammy with -proposed enabled (since ubuntu-release-upgrader will disable -proposed) and I did not receive a conffile prompt.

Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.11.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/cicero.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dtk-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/epos-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-mbrola-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng-mbrola-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/flite.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/llia_phon-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/swift-generic.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/pico-generic.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ivona.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/baratinoo.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/kali.conf ...
Setting up libgssapi3-heimdal:amd64 (7.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up g++-9 (9.4.0-5ubuntu1) ...
Setting up g++ (4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gnupg (2.2.27-3ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up build-essential (12.9ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...
(focal-amd64)root@impulse:~# grep proposed /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu/ jammy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu/ jammy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package speech-dispatcher - 0.11.1-1ubuntu1

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speech-dispatcher (0.11.1-1ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * debian/speech-dispatcher.maintscript:
    - don't remove mary-generic.conf on upgrade, it's included in the
      package again. Fix conffile prompt on update (lp: #1981611)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:15:31 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for speech-dispatcher has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.