0006968: Debian package improvements - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006968	GNUnet	other	public	2021-08-01 11:04	2024-03-07 21:27

Reporter	Florian Dold	Assigned To	Christian Grothoff
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	0006968: Debian package improvements
Description	The current Debian package for GNUnet needs a few improvements. I'm filing this bug to keep track of them. * User/group names should probably not be dynamic. I don't know any other Debian package that has variable user names. It just makes things more complex. * Configuration files dynamically generated to /etc/ are just overwritten on each install. That's unacceptable, as it might overwrite user changes. We need to use the standard ucf tooling so that Debian manages configuration files on upgrades properly. * We are currently installing systemd system unit files dynamically to /etc/, instead of using debhelper facilities. * We are currently installiny systemd user unit files manually. This means that every user who logs in will auto"magically" run a GNUnet peer. * We don't seem to use dpkg-statoverride correctly. We check with "dpkg-statoverride --list", but then don't use statoverride to change the permissions permanently. * The insert_gns logic seems buggy, considering that "set -e" is set. The error handling part will never be executed, but the script will just be stopped. * The whole NSS setup logic should IMHO only be executed when the user explicitly requested so via debconf.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-08-01 11:04	Florian Dold	New Issue
2021-08-01 11:06	Florian Dold	Description Updated
2024-03-07 21:26	schanzen	Assigned To	=> Christian Grothoff
2024-03-07 21:26	schanzen	Status	new => assigned
2024-03-07 21:27	schanzen	Note Added: 0021807