/etc/gnome/defaults.list claims to be user-modified, but I sure didn't do it

[Nick Moffitt]

I fired off an upgrade from quantal to raring, using do-release-upgrade -d -c (probably should have used update-manager, but server habits die hard). I then had one of my weekly quantal compiz crashes kill my ability to interact with the system. I waited until all disk activity stopped, rebooted, and started a dist-upgrade going.

The very first thing I was posed with was a dialog telling me that I or a script had changed /etc/gnome/defaults.list and would I like to see a diff. The diff wasn't very informative to me (three lines changed, I guess?) as I'd never actually touched this file myself, to my knowledge.

When filing this with ubuntu-bug, it also told me that I'd changed this file (but I said "yes" to the package manager! Doesn't that reset this?) and asked if I wanted to attach it to the bug. So sure, here it is.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: desktop-file-utils 0.21-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 19 15:23:41 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: desktop-file-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-19 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.gnome.defaults.list: 2013-03-19T14:33:50.782448

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the difference seems to be

"+application/x-scratch-project=scratch.desktop"

the issue is with "scratch" which does:
"debian/postinst: echo "application/x-scratch-project=scratch.desktop" >> $DEFAULTS"

that's buggy, they shouldn't be changing conffiles from the postinst this way but rather get desktop-file-utils patched with the default added there

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package scratch - 1.4.0.6~dfsg1-4

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scratch (1.4.0.6~dfsg1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed dependency from hicolor-icon-theme. Closes: #703141
  * Added proper support for MIME
  * Removed obsolete postinst/postrm scripts

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:10:03 +0100

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".