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Re: long daemon outages on upgrade



Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> The real problem, imho, is that apt leaves things in the unpacked and
> unconfigured state too long.  I see no problem, with it doing partial
> configures.
> 
> Ie, during an upgrade, when there are X number of unconfigured packages, go
> and do a configure run.  However, the apt author doesn't want to do this, and
> has given no good reason as to why.

Have you a reference on this?  Say a bug discussion or debian-devel
thread?

I want to know the context of this decision.



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