Please remove $Id$ from config files

Richard Kettlewell rjk at terraraq.uk
Mon Feb 18 07:52:15 UTC 2019


Each time INN upgrades on my Debian systems I get redundant config file
update queries from dpkg. For example:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  inn2 inn2-dev inn2-inews libjs-sphinxdoc nbd-client
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,749 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,216 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 227408 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../inn2_2.6.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking inn2 (2.6.3-1) over (2.6.2-1+b1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../inn2-dev_2.6.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking inn2-dev (2.6.3-1) over (2.6.2-1+b1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../inn2-inews_2.6.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking inn2-inews (2.6.3-1) over (2.6.2-1+b1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libjs-sphinxdoc_1.8.4-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking libjs-sphinxdoc (1.8.4-1) over (1.8.3-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../nbd-client_1%3a3.19-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nbd-client (1:3.19-3) over (1:3.19-2) ...
Setting up libjs-sphinxdoc (1.8.4-1) ...
Setting up inn2-dev (2.6.3-1) ...
Setting up inn2-inews (2.6.3-1) ...

Configuration file '/etc/news/inn.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** inn.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? d
--- /etc/news/inn.conf  2017-11-15 20:20:19.006138000 +0000
+++ /etc/news/inn.conf.dpkg-new 2019-02-17 16:52:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-##  $Id: inn.conf.in 10049 2016-08-05 11:40:25Z iulius $
+##  $Id: inn.conf.in 10301 2018-11-11 14:42:17Z iulius $
 ##
 ##  inn.conf -- INN configuration data
 ##
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 # defaults generated by configure may be reasonable.

 mta:                         "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem %s"
-organization:                "A wobbly pile of bits running InterNetNews"
+organization:                "A poorly-installed InterNetNews site"
 ovmethod:                    tradindexed
 hismethod:                   hisv6
-pathhost:                    deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk
+pathhost:                    server.example.net
 pathnews:                    /usr/lib/news

 #runasuser:
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@


Essentially no other software has the same issue. It's just a waste of
time. Please could the $Id$ lines be removed from the INN configuration
files.

ttfn/rjk


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