Debian Bug report logs - #1042875
cron-apt: man cron-apt mentions a configuration example file without any configuration

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Package: cron-apt; Maintainer for cron-apt is Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>; Source for cron-apt is src:cron-apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:51:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version cron-apt/0.13.0+nmu1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>:
Bug#1042875; Package cron-apt. (Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>. (Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: cron-apt: man cron-apt mentions a configuration example file without any configuration
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:48:24 +0200
Package: cron-apt
Version: 0.13.0+nmu1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I've tested this in cron-apt versions 0.13.0.1 (Bookworm) and
0.13.0+nmu1 (Bullseye).

I was trying to change some configuration and did: man cron-apt

It says (under "CONFIGURATION"):
"""
The  variables  that you can set in /etc/cron-apt/config is documented
in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
"""

The file /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config does not contain any
example but two lines:
"""
# Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible
# configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz.
"""

I would suggest that the "man" should mention
/usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz straight away.

Also, I think that reads better ".../etc/cron-apt/config are documented in
the..." (change is to are).

Thanks for cron-apt! I use it in quite a few systems for a long time and
I'm really happy with it.

Thank very much!


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
  APT prefers oldstable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cron-apt depends on:
ii  apt  2.2.4

Versions of packages cron-apt recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]              3.0pl1-137
ii  liblockfile1                    1.17-1+b1
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.5.18-0+deb11u1

cron-apt suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download changed [not included]
/etc/cron-apt/config changed [not included]
/etc/cron.d/cron-apt changed [not included]

-- no debconf information



Information forwarded to [email protected], Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>:
Bug#1042875; Package cron-apt. (Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:18:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>. (Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:18:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>
To: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#1042875: cron-apt: man cron-apt mentions a configuration example file without any configuration
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:14:08 +0200
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Hi

Thank you for noticing. I hope to fix on next update.

// Ola

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 08:51, Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]> wrote:

> Package: cron-apt
> Version: 0.13.0+nmu1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I've tested this in cron-apt versions 0.13.0.1 (Bookworm) and
> 0.13.0+nmu1 (Bullseye).
>
> I was trying to change some configuration and did: man cron-apt
>
> It says (under "CONFIGURATION"):
> """
> The  variables  that you can set in /etc/cron-apt/config is documented
> in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
> """
>
> The file /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config does not contain any
> example but two lines:
> """
> # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible
> # configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz.
> """
>
> I would suggest that the "man" should mention
> /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz straight away.
>
> Also, I think that reads better ".../etc/cron-apt/config are documented in
> the..." (change is to are).
>
> Thanks for cron-apt! I use it in quite a few systems for a long time and
> I'm really happy with it.
>
> Thank very much!
>
>
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 11.7
>   APT prefers oldstable-security
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
> not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages cron-apt depends on:
> ii  apt  2.2.4
>
> Versions of packages cron-apt recommends:
> ii  cron [cron-daemon]              3.0pl1-137
> ii  liblockfile1                    1.17-1+b1
> ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.5.18-0+deb11u1
>
> cron-apt suggests no packages.
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download changed [not included]
> /etc/cron-apt/config changed [not included]
> /etc/cron.d/cron-apt changed [not included]
>
> -- no debconf information
>


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