munin-async can't write to /var/lib/munin-async

Bug #1770569 reported by Stefano Rivera
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Bug Description

[Bug]
https://bugs.debian.org/691309 is back, in the form of https://bugs.debian.org/885454

Holger did some clean-up in 2.0.33-2 to the maintainer scripts, and removed the bit that set ownership of directories to the (dynamically created) munin users.

[Impact]
munin-async is unusable. munin-node config files that are not expected to be world-readable may be.

[Regression Potential]
changing directory ownership of an existing directory, in maintainer scripts, isn't ideal. But I've restricted it to just upgrades from 2.0.37-1.
The risk should be pretty minimal

[Test Case]
# apt install munin-async
# ls -ld /var/lib/munin-async/

If it belongs to root, that's bad.

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :
description: updated
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Stefano, or anyone else affected,

Accepted munin into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/munin/2.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in munin (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
Changed in munin (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package munin - 2.0.37-1ubuntu1

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munin (2.0.37-1ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Revert more of f1f48dee so that directories are again setup correctly on
    initial installations of munin-node and munin-async. (LP: #1770569)
    - Run the setup again, if upgrading from 2.0.37-1.

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Thu, 10 May 2018 23:49:23 -0700

Changed in munin (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: New → Fix Released
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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

Tested upgrade and fresh install scenarios, LGTM.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-bionic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Since the change is a pretty obvious packaging change I'll be accepting this verification, but please remember to be more verbose when validating packages - mention which versions you have tested and provide as much output as possible.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package munin - 2.0.37-1ubuntu0.1

---------------
munin (2.0.37-1ubuntu0.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Revert more of f1f48dee so that directories are again setup correctly on
    initial installations of munin-node and munin-async. (LP: #1770569)
    - Run the setup again, if upgrading from 2.0.37-1.

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Thu, 10 May 2018 23:58:52 -0700

Changed in munin (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for munin has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Changed in munin (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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