Bug#990209: fuse3: /etc/fuse.conf missing

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: fuse3
Version: 3.10.3-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org


Hey.

I've noted that /etc/fuse.conf was missing from all my servers (and
I'm pretty sure I haven't deleted it).

Reinstalling the package doesn't help (which is I guess because it's
a conffile and dpkg thinks it was deleted on purpose).



Could this also be related to the reason why it's missing?

When I've installed fuse3 I replaced fuse with it, which also contains
the same conffile.



I've seen the same behaviour for another package of mine:
webext-noscript: /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/opensearch_html.xml

that file is missing, and when I've installed webext-noscript I likely
removed the xul-ext-xxx version of it (which also contained the same
conffile.


So maybe this issue needs to be re-assigned to dpkg (I've CCed the dpkg
Team), or at least to lintian if packages do something "wrong" which
causes this problem.


Cheers,
Chris.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages fuse3 depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libfuse3-3 3.10.3-2
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii mount 2.36.1-7
ii sed 4.7-1

fuse3 recommends no packages.

fuse3 suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/fuse.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/fuse.conf'

-- no debconf information

[Guillem Jover]

On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 01:04:58 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: fuse3
> Version: 3.10.3-2
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org

> I've noted that /etc/fuse.conf was missing from all my servers (and
> I'm pretty sure I haven't deleted it).
>
> Reinstalling the package doesn't help (which is I guess because it's
> a conffile and dpkg thinks it was deleted on purpose).

> Could this also be related to the reason why it's missing?
>
> When I've installed fuse3 I replaced fuse with it, which also contains
> the same conffile.

If it was missing previously, then dpkg is supposed to carry over that
change when the new package takes over the old conffile, so this would
be expected yes.

> I've seen the same behaviour for another package of mine:
> webext-noscript: /etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/opensearch_html.xml
>
> that file is missing, and when I've installed webext-noscript I likely
> removed the xul-ext-xxx version of it (which also contained the same
> conffile.
>
>
> So maybe this issue needs to be re-assigned to dpkg (I've CCed the dpkg
> Team), or at least to lintian if packages do something "wrong" which
> causes this problem.

This all seems to be working as intended. It's equivalent as the user
having modified the contents of the conffile then those changes being
preserved when taking over.

Or is the problem here that you had not removed the conffile? If so
then perhaps fuse3 is removing the conffile when it should be leaving
it for the takeover? I've not looked into the specific packages
though so I don't know.

Thanks,
Guillem

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 12:17 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> Or is the problem here that you had not removed the conffile?

Exactly.... I'm pretty confident I hadn't removed it. And since I can
see this on numerous servers I'd say it's even less likely that I did
it by accident.

> If so
> then perhaps fuse3 is removing the conffile when it should be leaving
> it for the takeover? I've not looked into the specific packages
> though so I don't know.

As I've said, I've seen the same on some other packages already, though
currently, the only remaining one of these is webext-noscript.


Thanks,
Chris.