[Bug 518043] Re: Modifies /etc/default/apport during upgrade, causing conffile prompt

[Brian Murray]

This is no longer the case in update-manager as it just starts the
service one time:

    def enableApport(self, fname="/etc/default/apport"):
        """ enable apport """
        # startup apport just until the next reboot, it has the magic
        # "force_start" environment for this
        subprocess.call(["service","apport","start","force_start=1"]) 

You can see it may used to have modified /etc/default/apport though.
Regardless this is Fix Released.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  Modifies /etc/default/apport during upgrade, causing conffile prompt

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  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.

  Before upgrading, md5sums were identical:
   /etc/default/apport 51235ce40afb375944f7649f35bfd335 (from dpkg-query)
  51235ce40afb375944f7649f35bfd335  /etc/default/apport (on the system)

  Prompt during the upgrade (sorry, in French, but it's just a standard dpkg prompt for modified files) :
  Paramétrage de apport (1.12-0ubuntu3) ...

  Fichier de configuration « /etc/default/apport »
   ==> Modifié (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.
  *** apport (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [défaut=N] ? y
  Installation de la nouvelle version du fichier de configuration /etc/default/apport ...
  Installation de la nouvelle version du fichier de configuration /etc/cron.daily/apport ...
  apport start/running

  Diff:
  /etc/default/apport
  --- /etc/default/apport	2010-02-06 13:42:14.000000000 +0100
  +++ /etc/default/apport.dpkg-new	2010-01-26 18:17:05.000000000 +0100
  @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
   # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
   # you can temporarily override this with
  -# sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start
  +# sudo service apport start force_start=1
   enabled=1
   
   # set maximum core dump file size (default: 209715200 bytes == 200 MB)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CrashReports: 666:0:0:185963:2010-02-06 14:20:12.000000000 +0100:2010-02-06 14:30:04.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/xulrunner-1.9.0.crash
  Date: Sat Feb  6 14:31:50 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apport 1.12-0ubuntu3
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=fr_FR.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic-pae
  SourcePackage: apport
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic-pae i686

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