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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 01/20/2017 10:24 AM, Simone Dal Maso (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> Hello,
> yes, I modified /etc/sympa/sympa.conf, this is true, but this is the 
> regular thing for almost all debian packages.
> If you make a sympa update, and the configuration file is different from 
> what the users has,, a message should appear,
> at least advising that the file will change.

Yes. On top of backups of your system I would recommend etckeeper, which 
keeps track of
changes in /etc directory during APT upgrades.

Regards
         Racke

> 
> The strange thing is that the version, 6.1.23, is the same. So I can't 
> understand why there is an update if the version
> is the same.
> Anyway, thank you for your answer.
> 
> Il 19/01/2017 00:45, Steve Shipway ha scritto:
>> Simone;
>>
>> Is it possible that you made your configuration in the base files (
>> possibly under /usr/lib or /usr/share ) rather than the global or
>> per-domain configuration files ( usually under /etc/sympa ) ?  If you
>> change the base default files, these will be replaced when the package
>> is upgraded.  All changes should be made by overriding the defaults
>> using the /etc/sympa config files.
>>
>> Another possibility is that the package was created wrong and did not
>> specify the config directory or file.  This would be the case if you
>> were to find your /etc/sympa.conf or /etc/wwsympa.conf being overwritten
>> by a new package version.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 19/01/17 01:08, Simone Dal Maso (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> yesterday during a regular apt-get update and upgrade some software
>>> were updated, and also sympa.
>>> I have sympa 6.1.23.
>>>
>>> I was not care about the version, but the surprise was that, after the
>>> upgrade, I have a new sympa installed, and all my configuration was...
>>> lost.
>>> This is not acceptable... sorry but really I think iit is absurde that
>>> during an update all configurations file were lost.
>>> Anyway, I restored a backup of 2 days ago, and if I type:
>>>
>>> apt-get upgrade -s
>>> for simulating, I can see:
>>>  Conf sympa (6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u1 Debian:8.7/stable [amd64])
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> so the version is the same?
>>> 6.1.23?
>>> And what can I do now for preventing my system to update sympa and
>>> lost everything?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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