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feat(deb): package the server, and ask the questions that fail silently
DR-015, DR-016. §8 already shipped a static binary and an optional
container; this adds the third form, and it packages the SAME binary the
musl job proved static rather than building its own. Two builds of the
same commit could diverge, and the whole point of that assertion is that
the artifact an operator installs is the one that was checked.

Built with dpkg-deb from an explicit staging tree rather than cargo-deb.
debconf's `config` script and `templates` live in the control archive
next to the maintainer scripts, and controlling that archive directly
beats discovering what a wrapper will copy into it. dpkg-dev is on every
Debian builder, so this adds no build dependency.

Why debconf at all: two settings fail SILENTLY when unset. Without
JRAY_TMDB_API_KEY every upload stays `pending` and is never listed;
without JRAY_TRUSTED_PROXIES the X-Forwarded-For header is ignored, so
every client shares one rate-limit bucket and every abuse report points
at the proxy. Both leave a server that works and is quietly doing the
wrong thing — the worst thing to leave to a README nobody reads.

Three properties, each a way packaging usually goes wrong:

The generated config is NOT a dpkg conffile. It is written from the
debconf answers, so shipping it as one would make dpkg prompt on every
upgrade about changes the package itself had made.

Hand edits survive. postinst rewrites only the keys debconf manages;
comments, ordering and any other setting are left alone.

A blank key on reconfigure keeps the existing one. Otherwise pressing
Enter through a dpkg-reconfigure would unpublish every future upload.

The seeding guard is worth its comment, because the obvious version is
wrong twice over. `config` seeds unanswered questions from the env file
so a reconfigure shows what is actually in force. Seeding
unconditionally overwrites a preseed — debconf-set-selections marks what
it sets as seen — so every unattended install would quietly reconfigure
itself back to whatever was on disk. Guarding on an empty value does not
work either: server-id and bind carry template Defaults, so db_get
returns "localhost" for a question nobody answered. The test is the
`seen` flag, which is the actual question being asked.

Purge keeps the database, knowingly departing from the expectation that
purge removes everything. Manifests are the output of real CV compute on
media the operator may no longer have, and §8 says federation is
explicitly not a backup. Destroying that during an `apt purge` is not a
trade worth making for tidiness; postrm names the path instead.

The nginx example is documentation, not installed configuration. The
proxy usually runs on a different host from the server, so a file
dropped into this machine's nginx would be in the wrong place — and §8
leaves the edge to the operator deliberately.

Verified by running it, not by reading it: a full lifecycle in a
bookworm container — build, preseeded install, mode-600 env file, key
absent from debconf's database afterwards, `systemd-analyze verify` on
the unit, the installed binary answering /health and /ready, reconfigure
preserving both the key and an unmanaged setting, and purge leaving the
database. It failed on the seeding bug above the first time, which is
why that guard exists. CI runs the same checks against every build.

TRACES: DR-015, DR-016 | PR-004
2026-09-06 09:58:47 +02:00
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