Logcheck devel - Dec 2009 - Bug#560428: oidentd and logcheck-database: error when trying to install together

Package: logcheck-database,oidentd
Version: logcheck-database/1.3.4
Version: oidentd/2.0.8-3
Severity: serious
User: treinen at debian.org
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2009-12-11
Architecture: amd64
Distribution: sid

Hi,

automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
detected the following problem:


WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  logcheck-database oidentd
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and
fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5406907
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and
fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5407760
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and
fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5407052
Authentication warning overridden.
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package logcheck-database.
(Reading database ... 10436 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.3.4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package oidentd.
Unpacking oidentd (from .../oidentd_2.0.8-3_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/oidentd_2.0.8-3_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/oidentd', which is
also in package logcheck-database 0:1.3.4
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/oidentd_2.0.8-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violate
section 7.6.1 of the policy. Possible solutions are to have the two
packages conflict, to rename the common file in one of the two
packages, or to remove the file from one package and have this package
depend on the other package. File diversions or a Replace relation are
another possibility.

Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
(according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
slightly out of sync):


  etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/oidentd
  

This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package.

-Ralf.

PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/.

Your message dated Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:43:25 +0000
with message-id <E1NQeyb-00066Y-Ox at ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#560428: fixed in logcheck 1.3.5
has caused the Debian Bug report #560428,
regarding logcheck-database: ignore.d.server/oidentd conflicts with oidentd
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner at bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
560428: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560428
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner at bugs.debian.org with problems
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded message was scrubbed...
From: Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr>
Subject: oidentd and logcheck-database: error when trying to install together
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:00:52 +0100
Size: 4214
URL:
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/logcheck-devel/attachments/20100101/77e22472/attachment.eml>
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded message was scrubbed...
From: madduck at debian.org (martin f. krafft)
Subject: Bug#560428: fixed in logcheck 1.3.5
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:43:25 +0000
Size: 5836
URL:
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/logcheck-devel/attachments/20100101/77e22472/attachment-0001.eml>