package: shellinabox
version: 2.21
severity: serious

Hi,

shellinabox ships files in /etc that are not marked as conffiles

Files in /etc must be marked conffiles if they are included in a package.
Otherwise they should be created by maintainer scripts.

Please refer to Configuration files (Section 10.7) in the Debian Policy
Manual for details.

Cheers,

Ivo

The package uses debhelper so this is very unlikely to happen.

I run lintian on shellinabox.deb and I get this:

E: shellinabox: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile [etc/shellinabox/options-available/00+Black on White.css]
E: shellinabox: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile [etc/shellinabox/options-available/00_White On Black.css]
E: shellinabox: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile [etc/shellinabox/options-available/01+Color Terminal.css]
E: shellinabox: missing-conffile Black.css [conffiles:4]
E: shellinabox: missing-conffile Terminal.css [conffiles:5]
E: shellinabox: missing-conffile White.css [conffiles:3]
E: shellinabox: missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script shellinabox [etc/init.d/shellinabox]
E: shellinabox: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile Black.css [conffiles:4]
E: shellinabox: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile Terminal.css [conffiles:5]
E: shellinabox: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile White.css [conffiles:3]
E: shellinabox: relative-conffile Black.css [conffiles:4]
E: shellinabox: relative-conffile Terminal.css [conffiles:5]
E: shellinabox: relative-conffile White.css [conffiles:3]
E: shellinabox: unknown-conffile-instruction /etc/shellinabox/options-available/00+Black [conffiles:3]
E: shellinabox: unknown-conffile-instruction /etc/shellinabox/options-available/00_White [conffiles:4]
E: shellinabox: unknown-conffile-instruction /etc/shellinabox/options-available/01+Color [conffiles:5]

It seems to me that lintian is confused by spaces in the filenames,
which would indicate a bug in lintian, not in shellinabox.

Thanks.